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Youssouf Keita is coming to Europe from 16 April to 10 June 2023. Performances and workshops in Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, among...

11 April, 2023 / 0 Comments

St Anna is a neighbourhood in Tilburg where residents themselves regularly organise activities for the neighbourhood. On the weekend of 15 and 16...

23 March, 2023 / 0 Comments

Here is a report of the Balafon Meeting held on Saturday 4 February 2023 in Tilburg. We worked on two rhythms that day:...

07 February, 2023 / 0 Comments

In late 2022, I did some Christmas activities at Kessels Museum Tilburg. At the museum, I have been doing balafon making one day a...

24 January, 2023 / 0 Comments

For a few years now, Youssouf Keita, my balafon teacher in Burkina Faso, has been telling me about his dream to establish a...

09 December, 2022 / 0 Comments

I found a video on youtube of a music evening at Hotel-Resto ZION; the hotel where we normally stay during our stay in...

08 December, 2022 / 0 Comments

Negunya played along the road during the Amsterdam Marathon 2022. After the bad weather we had at the Dam-to-Dam Run, we were hoping...

17 October, 2022 / 0 Comments

On 17 September, as in previous years, Negunya had signed up to play during the ' Dam tot Damloop 2022.' This running race...

21 September, 2022 / 0 Comments

You may have thought: "I'd love to build my own balafon! What is normally done in Mali, Ivory Coast or Burkina Faso can...

20 September, 2022 / 0 Comments

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