Live Music with Sean Gaskell – Playing the African Kora

Gaskell performs songs on the kora – a 21 stringed West African harp. He studied under the extensive instruction of Moriba Kuyateh and the late Malamini Jobarteh in Gambia, and both Youssoupha Cissokho and Mamadou Cissokho in Senegal. The kora is traditionally played by oral historians known as Griots. Many songs featured on the kora preserve an 800 year history dating back to the founding of the Mande empire. Gaskell has presented adult, youth and family programs at over 350 libraries and a multitude of k-12 schools, colleges, universities and assisted living facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

The show will be moved inside the Cordingley Room if there is bad weather that evening.

Thank you to the Great Falls Public Library Foundation for funding this program.