Biography
In 2007, Jayme Stone spent three months in Mali, West Africa studying with kora and n’goni players, making field recordings, and exploring the banjo’s African roots. He sat in with Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra and played with griots, buskers and elders—under baobab trees, at the confluence of the Niger and Bani Rivers, and as part of an all-night ceremony in the Dogon’s sandstone cliffs. He returned home to make the Juno award-winning album, Africa to Appalachia, an album of recycled and reimagined traditional songs in collaboration with Mansa Sissoko.
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