{"id":2363224,"date":"2026-04-07T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2363224"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:56:49","slug":"live-music-ablaye-cissoko-cyrille-brotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/live-music-ablaye-cissoko-cyrille-brotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Live music: Ablaye Cissoko &#038; Cyrille Brotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senegalese kora master Ablaye Cissoko shares the stage in a mesmerizing collaboration with French accordionist and composer Cyrille Brotto. Together, they create a strikingly modern sound that melds the deep traditions of their very different musical cultures and showcases their unique artistry.<\/p>\n<p>Cissoko is one of his generation\u2019s finest kora players<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span>an 800-year-old instrument which combines the features of the lute and harp. It is used extensively in West Africa by djeli families<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span>traditional historians, genealogists and storytellers<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span>who pass their skills on to their descendants. Cissoko is an avid cross-cultural collaborator. He incorporates Mandinka griot traditions with contemporary musical creation, performing with artists across genres, including world music, jazz, classical and baroque.<\/p>\n<p>Brotto is an accomplished diatonic accordionist and multi-instrumentalist, with a distinguished performing and educational profile in France and across Europe. The rapport between these two artists is evident in their mesmerizing music.<\/p>\n<p>Ablaye Cissoko and Cyrille Brotto perform a gift of poetic imagination and musical intelligence, at times so harmonious that it seems as if touched by grace.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ablaye Cissoko &amp; Cyrille Brotto | Seirm 2025 | BBC ALBA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQB5Ms17HMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js?ver=7.7.14\" id=\"tec-virtual-fb-sdk-js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.coa.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese kora master Ablaye Cissoko shares the stage in a mesmerizing collaboration with French accordionist and composer Cyrille Brotto. 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Cissoko is one of his generation\u2019s finest kora players\u2014an 800-year-old instrument which combines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2363225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Live-music-Ablaye-Cissoko-Cyrille-Brotto.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363226,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363224\/revisions\/2363226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}