BALA-BILA
October 23 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$25
Date: October 23, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Providence Public Library
Location: 150 Empire Street, Providence
Tickets: General Admission tickets: $25 (+ $2 online processing fee) Pay-what-you-can tickets are available to our community members. Your ticket purchase in any amount directly supports FirstWorks connecting art with audiences.
About the performance: BALA-BILA brings together two African master musicians–Balla Kouyaté on balafon, calabash, bass guitar and voice, and Matchume Zango on timbila, mbira, percussion and voice–through a live concert framed as an intercultural musical conversation between the two artists. Kouyaté, from the West African country of Mali, and Zango, from the East African country of Mozambique, are leading exponents of their respective principal instruments–BALAfon and timBILA–two world heritage instruments that are played together for the first time.