For all the riches and diverse avenues of music making their way through Santa Barbara on this year’s concert calendar, sounds from outside the Western world — so-called “world music” — have been all ...

Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa’s most popular and recognized musicians. Habib Koité was born in 1958 in Thiès, a Senegalese town situated on the railway line connecting Dakar to Niger, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Habib Koité. Handout photo Habib Koité and his band have stopped for coffee and gas somewhere in northern Iowa, heading toward a ...

With Colorado’s just-passed statewide smoking ban prompting threats of legal challenges, Habib Koité — headliner of Putumayo’s Acoustic Africa tour — may inadvertently add fuel to the debate with his ...

Bonnie Raitt knows a thing or two about soulful guitarists, so when she declared that Mali’s Habib Koité deserves consideration alongside legendary ax masters, even music fans who pay little attention ...

Habib Koite was planning to be an engineer. But music got its teeth in him and wouldn't let him go. "Life made me a musician," the prominent singer and guitarist from Mali said Wednesday, with ...

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Hearing the comment again makes Habib Koite laugh, and why wouldn't it? No other musician in Africa, let alone any other continent, can claim to have inspired Bonnie Raitt to utter, "I would drink ...

There’s a lot of great stuff to see and hear this weekend in the Bay Area. Here’s a partial rundown. Concert picks: Habib Koité, Dave Mason, Lisa Fischer Here are three shows music fans should know ...

Habiba Koité & BamadaHighline BallroomNew York, New YorkMarch 16, 2010Many shows at the Highline Ballroom are general admission, but the venue will change things up for certain shows by putting in ...