Alya is a young musician from Guinèe-Conakry. This video is an example of his fantastic ability with the Balafon. He plays with the most biggest ballets of Guinèe, from Wofa and les Etoiles de Faretà to Les Bayfall de Guinèe. He also play the djembe too with a very great maestry. If you want to study with him, you can find him at Conakry in Dix...

A Sambla local band heats up the ambiance at a HIV AIDS event

video from the dvd " The balafon with Aly Keita & Gert Kilian directed by Philippe Nasse" from the dvd serie "le salon de musique" www.le-salon-de-musique.com

Composition: Kevin Seddiki Guitar: Kevin Seddiki Zarb: Bijan Chemirani

Jerry Leake performs a balafon improvisation using 4 mallets at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA.

Ibrahima Diabaté, vieux balafoniste, jouant un de ses balafons dans la case commune de sa cour à Djiguéra (Kénédougou - Burkina-Faso).

From the gig in Gothenburg september 2007

Balafon Rare Video

Summertime interprété par Yaya Diabaté pour BaraGnouma à Bobo-Dioulasso

Kanazoe interprete Yiriba sur un balaluxe pour BaraGnouma à Bobo-Dioulasso.

Kanko dembele joue un balafon Bwaba de dédougou au cabaret "Sabine 2"

CELLIER- DUPERREX AFRICAN PERCUSSION+ BALAFON http://www.lusoformosa.com

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Kélétigui Diabaté plays the balafon in Malmö, Sweden during a concert with Habib Koité and Bamada.

With the kora player Mamadou Diabate (Mali / USA) in my home in Vienna in March 2006. He belongs to the north-western branch of the Diabates with the kora tradition, I (Burkina Faso / Austria) belong to the south-eastern branch maintaining the balafon tradition. Our family has maintained the art of making music for many centuries. The first Diaba...

Montpellier le 24 aout 2007 sinte konofe & kognabara

balafoniste et guitariste guinéen bien calé,fabrique de superbes balafons ....

A young star rising in the music scene in mali and international

Adama Diabaté sur balafon diatonique pour BaraGnouma

Daouda was one of my teachers. My virtuosity - some people say, I would have more than two hands - I owe to him. He was very strict with his gifted students. (Owing to this I had permanently mango-sized bumps on my head...) Here we play "DabaBa" (the big hoe) - a music for sowing. He starts alone but plays for three musicians: he combines the most...

Lassana Diabaté et Laurent Rigaud jouent le balafon mandingue à Bamako en Fevrier 2007.

Zoumana Diabaté sur balafon diatonique avec Lassina Dembele Chez Françoise à l'heure du café Touba

バマコの路上バラフォニスト

Studio recording of BALAFON fisrt historical étude by Christian Lauba on 6 minutes non stop circular breathing, Richard Ducros on alto saxophone.

Senoufo traditional dances: M'Boloi & Balafon. Somewhere in the Korhogo / Sinematiali region. 1993. VHS transfer.

Later on while I was eating Bala was still playing, I quickly grabbed the powershot and got some video, he really is a master on the balafon

友達の家でジャムセッションな日。

Adama Diabaté interprete Orodara Sidiki pour BaraGnouma

As well as having lessons (you can see in other videos) Bala also played guitar and I played for him. We then worked out the Martin Taylor intro to "KIKO" on Balafon - Bala had just learned it and started messing with it - I have other video where he really cuts loose, but here he is just getting it right

Cours de balafon par Diabaté Pantio Moussa pour BaraGnouma.