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Touring World Beat Groups

Seattle is a popular stop for touring world music groups. Here’s a list of world beat bands that have toured through here in the past few years.

  • Afrissippi
  • Albino!
  • Amadou and Miriam
  • Andrew Oliver Kora Band
  • Angelique Kidjo
  • Anoushka Shankar
  • Antibalas
  • Aphrodesia
  • Baba Maal
  • Balkan Beat Box
  • Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar
  • Daby Toure
  • Dee Dee Bridgeater’s Red Earth
  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • Dobet Gnahore
  • Femi Kuti
  • Gangbe Brass Band
  • Garaj Mahal
  • Gipsy Kings
  • Habib Koite & Bamada
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Jigu!
  • Kekele
  • King Kester Emeneya
  • Kodo
  • Konono No. 1
  • Kusun Ensemble
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • Lagbaja
  • Les Nubians
  • Lionel Loueke
  • Oliver Mtukudzi
  • Ozomatli
  • Pa BoBo Jobarteh
  • Poncho Sanchez
  • Prince Diabate
  • Richard Bona
  • Rokia Traore
  • Samite
  • Seu Jorge
  • Seun Kuti
  • Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
  • Stomp
  • Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Thomas Mapfumo
  • Tinariwen
  • Toubab Krewe
  • Toumani Diabate
  • Vieux Farka TourĂ©
  • Youssou N’Dour

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1 Barb January 2, 2011 at 8:28 pm

Thanks for your website.

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