MUSIC: Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band x Peni Candra Rini x Mowder Oyal
Sat, May 27
|Le Mondo
Burkina Faso meets Java meets Baltimore in this amazing night of music!
Time & Location
May 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
About The Event
Le Mondo is psyched to welcome Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band (Burkina Faso) and Peni Candra Rini (Java, Indonesia) to Baltimore, alongside our house favorites Mowder Oyal (Baltimore, USA), for a don't-even-think-about-missing night of music and performance.
ABOUT BABA COMMANDANT
Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the Burkinabé musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band.
His current band —…
Tickets
General Admission
$20.00
+$0.50 ticket service fee
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