http://calabashmusic.com/New Music From Tent Sessions on Calabash Music2008-09-07T01:19:53ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comBaba Djirehttp://tentsessions.calabashmusic.com/#album_211582005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Baba DjireBaba Djire is a young singer from Djire, a desert town not far from Essakane, where the Festival in the Desert was held. Unknown outside the region, Djire has an extraordinary voice, and one hopes, a bright future performing and recording his tuneful original songs.]]>Haira Arbyhttp://tentsessions.calabashmusic.com/#album_211642005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Haira ArbyHaira Arby has been called the nightingale of the North, and although she has never had an international release, she is unquestionably the reigning queen of song in Timbuktu, Mali. She sings about the traditional ways of the Songhai and Tuareg people, but also about contemporary issues, like democracy and development.]]>Lobi Traorehttp://tentsessions.calabashmusic.com/#album_211682005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Lobi TraoreLobi Traore, another fine African bluesman, has made his career in the nightspots of Bamako, hundreds of miles and a world away from the northern desert. Traore's music draws on the folklore of the Bambara people, whose Malian empire was the last to fall in the early days of French colonialism. A powerful singer and supremely expressive guitarist, Traore is only now beginning to receive the global recognition he deserves.]]>Bocar Madjohttp://tentsessions.calabashmusic.com/#album_211722005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Bocar MadjoBocar Madjo's band, who we had filmed at an Afropop tent session on the first morning of the festival, was smoking. And the two women who sing chorus and dance almost stole the show with their eye-batting flirtations and hip gyrations. The highlight of the set was djurou djurou , a dance rhythm from Goundam that Bocar has popularized all over Mali. Bocar told us there are two types of singers in Mali, those who sing homage to people and those who sing to advise people. Bocar is definitely in the latter camp, encouraging kids to work and young people to protect themselves against SIDA (AIDS), above all, through abstinence, although condoms were mentioned too… Sean Barlow, AFropop Executive Producer ]]>