ALPHA YAYA DIALLO
PRESHOW ARTIST: WHAT WE EMBRACE
AUGUST 16
ABOUT THE SHOW
Guitarist and singer Alpha Yaya Diallo, from Guinea in West Africa, is one of the hottest acts on the world music scene. Now based in Canada, he’s earned a matchless reputation for the excellence of his musicianship and the excitement of his live shows – whether performing solo or with his band Bafing. Diallo is a multi-talented artist. His dexterous acoustic and electric guitar-playing, with its fluid melodic lines and compelling grooves, places him in the front ranks of African axemen. In addition, he’s a skilled and experienced performer on a variety of percussion instruments, and on the balafon (traditional marimba). To cap it off, Diallo writes all his own compositions and sings with a supple, high, and beautifully modulated voice.
By successfully uniting the traditional and the contemporary in African music, Diallo has carved out a niche beside such luminaries as Salif Keita, Baaba Maal, Youssou N’Dour, and Mory Kante. Always seeking new territories to explore while at the same time respecting his roots, Alpha Yaya Diallo is one of the most inspired and inspirational world music artists performing anywhere.
PRE-SHOW ARTIST: LITTLEFOX
Duo Lindalouise and Dougie Grieg met in a dimly lit bar where Dougie was singing in a tiny Scottish town many years ago. They fell in love, married and moved halfway across the world. One day Lindalouise with shaky hands, took a journal of songs that she’d been secretly writing to Dougie, a writer she deeply admired.
It was just over two years ago they decided to embrace a new journey. What We Embrace tells stories, some triumphant, some less so. Their sound is teetering between Indie Folk and New Americana. Voices blending, lifting and weaving in unexpected places. Each song, a journey through heartbreak, love, uncertainty and redemption.
They make music for the dreamers, the broken and the yet-to-be-found, drawing influences from The Civil Wars, Fleetwood Mac and Brandi Carlile, amongst others.
“We often find ourselves in moments quite unexpected and we find then, we are all what we embrace”
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