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Summer 2025
Balafon workshop in Sédéron, France
July 26-August 2
with Kanazoe Dioubate of Burkina Faso
Annual Balafon Workshop in the south of France with Kanazoe Diabaté. One week. All Balafon. 26 July 26 -2 August
Sédéron, France
See below for more details
Join us in 2025-2026
For more information contact lisa@lisafeder.com
Concerts and Seminars
Our seminars, workshops and concerts are available in person and online
seminars and classes
Lisa Feder, author of Jeliya at the Crossroads (2021) designs and leads seminars and classes on the role of griots in culture in West Africa and beyond. Each program is tailor-made to suit the university, museum, or sector of society who is interested in learning the essential role of griot music in bringing people together across boundaries.
Click www.lisafeder.com for more information
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concerts
We custom-design music concerts in various formations, as solo, duet, acoustic, or dance band to accompany seminars and workshops.
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To the right, see Famoro Dioubate in New York City.
music workshops
Our griots offer Manding music workshops in the United States and in France. Through our music workshops, student and professional musicians who play any instrument in the key of C-Major can learn to play looping, polyrhythmic melodies of griot music. We bring workshops to schools and universities.
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Kanazoe Diabate of Burkina Faso in Marseille, France, 2020.
Famoro Dioubate, Kakanzoe Diabate, and others lead trips to West Africa every winter hosting Mande music workshops for musicians and students from the US and Europe. Join us! Email Lisa directly for more information at lisa@mandinggrooves.com