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Orchestra Baobab and RURA
Old Fruitmarket
Please Note: This is a past event.
One of the defining acts in contemporary African music, Orchestra Baobab, first formed in 1970, fused Senegal’s formerly predominant Afro-Cuban sounds with Congolese rumba, Ghanaian high life, griot singing and other local styles. Originally the house band at Dakar’s hottest nightspot the Baobab Club, they attained huge popularity, paving the way for such stellar compatriots as Youssou N’Dour and Baaba Maal. Subsequent rediscovery by Western world music audiences prompted their triumphant reformation in 2001, since when their latest album, 2007’s Made in Dakar, has won widespread critical reviews, with the BBC’s Jon Lusk hailing it as “pure, vintage Baobab”.
Young Highland hotshots RURA, now featuring singer-songwriter Adam Holmes alongside fiddler Jack Smedley, piper Steven Blake, guitarist Chris Waite and David Foley on bodhran, followed up their 2011 Danny Kyle Open Stage Award with a highly successful summer festival season, and will soon release their debut album.
Tickets: £16
Past Event
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