Jazz Articles about Boubacar Traore

Boubacar Traoré At Regional Cultural Centre

by Ian Patterson
July 21, 2024

Boubacar Traoré Regional Cultural Centre Earagail Arts Festival Letterkenny, Ireland July 14, 2024 Letterkenny's Regional Cultural Centre is not the biggest of venues, but a full house is a full house. Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist Boubacar Traoré has been packing them in around the world since the early '90s, though his career dates back to the beginning of the '60s when his songs, a staple of Mali's national radio, made him a celebrity. This, ...

Boubacar Traor: Best Of Boubacar Traor

by AAJ Staff
April 7, 2003

To the extent that bluesmen from Mali have reached worldwide prominence, the leader of the pack is Ali Farka Touré. Partly as a result of his Ry Cooder collaboration Talking Timbuktu, he has attracted a surprisingly large audience.

But close behind is Boubacar Traoré, who was a big radio star in Mali in the '60s. A number of starts and stops in his career (related to family, money, and travel) derailed him along the way, but in 1994 ...