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Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

 in 1961, l’Ensemble instrumental national is an orchestra of traditional Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

an music and song.

Its mission is to maintain and give value to the heritage of Malian forms of music and song.

Repertoire

  • Duga : (Hymn of bravery)
  • Maliba : (Glory to Mali)
  • Mamaya
  • Soweto (a memory of Soweto)
  • Sogo : (hymn for the hunters, symbols of honesty and bravery)
  • Soundiata : (Mandingue Epic)
  • Dâ Monzon : (Bambaran Epic)
  • Sosso : (to encourage joy, happiness, and love)
  • Taara : (homage to bravery)
  • Sécurité : (homage to the army)
  • Janjo : (homage to bravery)
  • Musolu : (homage to women)
  • Cedo : (homage to bravery)
  • Bamba Niaré : Jatigiya (Hospitality)

Tours

  • 1961 : Artistic tour in USSR
  • 1964 : Animation Salon International de POCORA/Pris (France)
  • 1964 : Festival des Arts Nègres à Dakar (Sénégal)
  • 1977 : Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (FESTAC.77)
  • 1978 : Algeria
  • 1979 : Festival in Guinea (Conakry)
  • 1979 : France, Germany, Switzerland, and Holland
  • 1980 : Niger
  • 1983 : China, Korea, and USSR
  • 1986 : Korea
  • 1987 : Festival in Libya
  • 1996 : Festival Republic of Congo-Brazzaville (FESPAM)
  • 1997 : New Orleans Jazz Festival (USA) and performance in New York
  • 1999 : 4th Annual « Roots Festival à Banjul » (Gambia)
  • 2000 : Malian Fair in Paris
  • 2000 : CAN at Accra (Ghana)
  • 2001 : Faire at the Gallery Fayette-Paris
  • 2002 : Dakar (Sénégal)
  • 2003 : Night of solidarity and intégration (Ouagadougou)
  • 2003 : Folklife Festival in Washington DC

Prizes

  • 1963 : Medal for the Folklore of National Theater at Paris.
  • 1966 : Gold medal (first prize) at the Festival of Black Arts at Dakar
  • 1969 : Gold medal (first prize) at the Pan-African Arts Festival in Algier (Algeria)
  • 1995 : Gold medal of Melody at Johannesburg (Fair Afro-Arabe)

Instruments

  • Kora
    Kora (instrument)
    The kora is a 21-string bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.-Description:A kora is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator, and has a notched bridge. It does not fit well into any one category of western instruments and would have to be...

  • Balafon
    Balafon
    The balafon is a resonated frame, wooden keyed percussion idiophone of West Africa; part of the idiophone family of tuned percussion instruments that includes the xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, and the vibraphone...

  • Flute
  • N’Goni
  • N’Polon
  • Kamalen N’Goni
  • Dundun
    Dundun
    Dundun may refer to;*The Yoruba talking drum*Dunun, dundun, doundoun or djun-djun, a family of West African bass drums* Dunedin, the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand...

  • Soku
    Soku
    A soku is a traditional West African instrument used in a type of music called Wassoulou which originated in the Wasulu region of southwest Mali. It is a traditional fiddle, sometimes replaced by modernized versions of the instrument. Known as the n'diaraka or njarka in Songhai, it is composed of...

  • Djembé
    Djembe
    A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....

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