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 Touré
- Youssou N’Dour