Fatoumata Diawara – Seun Kuti cancels

Seun Kuti cancels his forthcoming European tour due to personal reasons, which thus applies to the concert in Konserthuset Stockholm on November 4.

Fatoumata Diawara's performance remains on the program.

Purchased tickets are valid. To compensate for the canceled concert with Seun Kuti, Selam offers a value check for an upcoming Selam concert at Konserthuset Stockholm in 2019. The check will be issued at the entrance on November 4, on presentation of a concert ticket.

Any refund of tickets is made at Konserthuset Stockholm's box office from Monday 29 October 11.00 and no later than 3 November 15.00.

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Fatoumata Diawara's voice is warm and inviting and the swaying music has a magnetic sound imbued with the colours of West Africa: terracotta, gold and ochre. Fatoumata Diawara is one of West Africa’s absolute brightest shining stars.

She grew up in southern Mali with Wassoulou music, a style thought to be one of the most important predecessors to the blues. As a teenager she moved to France, where she worked on several movies and was a member of a theatre company. But it was when she began writing songs that she came into her own. She returned to Mali and is now one of a growing number of musicians who season their sound with influences from a broad Afro-western cultural spectrum – a “pan-folk” sound.

Fatoumata Diawara has a strong social engagement and during the Mali crisis, she gathered the best of the best of the country’s musicians in a manifestation for peace with the song “Mali-Ko”. The recently released single “Nterini” from her latest album “Fenfo” reflects the global refugee crisis. In 2014 she was awarded membership in the French Order “Chevalier de l’ordre des art et lettre”. She has also worked with greats such as Oumou Sangaré, Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

In association with Selam