The TSA says it never opened the instrument's case. But Sissoko and 3MA, the band he was touring with, are much more than a few weeks of international headlines. 3MA stands for Madagascar ...

Sponsor Message The alleged incident occurred as Sissoko was leaving the U.S. after a cross-country tour with the trio 3MA; he was booked on an overnight flight on Air France from New York's John F.

Malian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora ... of a two-week tour around the United States with his group 3MA. “He checked in his kora, in its hard case, with its state ...

Sissoko had just completed a tour of U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York, with his group, 3MA. The band takes its name from the first two letters of each member's ...

Ballaké Sissoko, a Malian musician and kora player ... he performed alongside French cellist Vincent Segal. For the 3MA project, he also teamed up with Driss El Maloumi’s Arab oud and Rajery’s ...

Like Diabaté, he went on to push the boundaries of the kora tradition: as a mainstay of pan-African trio 3MA; in duet albums with the French cellist Vincent Ségal. For Djourou, Sissoko ...

The kora is in pieces.” Communiqué pour diffusion immédiate Ballake Sissoko / NØ FØRMAT! / Mad Minute Music Thanks to Lucy Durán for the... Posted by Ballake Sissoko on Wednesday ...

When Malian master musician Ballaké Sissoko opened the case to his kora, a traditional and delicate 21-string instrument, after an early February flight from New York to Paris, he was devastated ...

The untimely death of Toumani Diabaté last summer makes his sometime collaborator (on the groundbreaking album New Ancient Strings) Ballaké Sissoko undisputedly ... in the trio 3MA; and several ...

Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal met by chance. Sissoko plays the traditional West African harp-like instrument called the kora. Segal was once a member of the French National Orchestra cello ...