(headline image: WOMEX 24 Official Showcase Artist – Rasha Nahas (Palestine / Germany)) WOMEX 2024 organizers announced the complete lineup for the Jury-selected Showcases, Horizons Stage…
World Circuit Records will reissue Orchestra Baobab’s Specialist In All Styles on vinyl for the first time. The release date is September 25, 2020. Orchestra…
Bandleader Balla Sidibé, one of the founders of the famed Senegalese Afro-Latin band Orchestra Baobab, passed away on Wednesday, July 29 in Dakar, Senegal. In…
Thione Ballago Seck was born on March 12th, 1955. He grew up in a family of musicians and began his career as a griot, learning…
Senegalese act Orchestra Baobab is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the reissue of its essential 2002 reunion album Specialist In All Styles for the first…
WOMAD Cáceres 2018 has announced another set of artists scheduled to perform this year. The additional acts include acclaimed Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab, their compatriots…
Orchestra Baobab – Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng (Word Circuit WC092, 2017) It’s no surprise that ‘Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng’, the new album by Senegalese band…
‘Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng’, the new album by the iconic Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab has reached the top of the Transglobal World Music Chart. The…