Line Up

Abdoulaye Diabate, Bailo Bah, Emi Yabuno, Abdoulaye Alhassane, Mamadou Ba, Sean Dixon and Sylvain Leroux

In September 2003 we cracked a tough nut and Source got a gig at the legendary Zinc Bar!  …and what a gig: once a month for 10 years! Every musician in New York wants that gig and we got it.

Why? One may inquire…. Magic!… and depth: We shave Malian griot Abdoulaye Diabate who has rightly been proclaimed “best African singer in America”; we have the one-and-only Fula flute Master Bailo Bah who can paralyze you with a flute-scream; we have everybody’s favorite bass player the great Mamadou Ba; we have the delightful, inspired Emi Yabuno on piano and keys; we have the electrifying Songhai guitarist Abdoulaye Alhassane who hails from the Sahara desert; we have veteran drummer Sean Dixon laying it down the way it spozed-2-b; we have musicians who want to be there, the best in the business who enjoy African grooves with improvisations soaring to sublime heights; we have the people of Zinc Bar who hear the best on a daily basis and they love us and our music.

So if you enjoy good African groove and like to listen to musicians who are masters of their craft and experiencing music that was never played before then do yourself a favor and bring your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband(s), friends, colleagues, partners, boss, underlings or whatever and come celebrate with us 10 years of happening music.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sylvain Leroux

 

PS: Special thanks to the musicians who have contributed to Source through the years, they are: 

 

VOICE

Abdoulaye Diabate (guitar, congas also)

Gino Sitson

Mai Lingani

Missia Saran Dioubate

Tapani Sissoko

 

WINDS

Bailo Bah: Fula flute

Sylvain Leroux: flute, Fula flute, alto sax

Hayes Greenfield: saxophone

James Zollar: trumpet

Charlie Franklin: trumpet

 

KEYS

Emi Yabuno

Shai Bachar

Mamiko Watanabe

Frederic Las Fargeas

Jeremy Mage

Andy Algire

Azouhouni Adou

 

GUITAR

Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure

Petit Conde

Djekorya Mory Kante

Moussa Sissoko

Mamady Kourouma

Martino Atangana

Mamady Kouyate

Sam Dickey

 

BASS

Mamadou Ba

Leo Traversa

Chulo Gatewood

Matt Pavolka

Thierno Camara

Patrice Blanchard

Nick Cudehy

Fred Doumbe

Fasil Wuhib

 

DRUMS

Sean Dixon

Andy Algire

Robert Bonhomme

Jojo Kuo

Mahanta Faye

Peter Lewis

 

PERCUSSION

Sergo Decius

Aboubacar Diabate

Daniel Villeneuve

 

OTHER

Yacouba Sissoko: kora

DJ Neva

 

Many thanks also to all the musicians who sat-in and are too numerous to list.

 

Special thanks to Alex and Christina, Frederika Krier, David Racanelli, David Ellenbogen, Maryna Lansky, Magali Regis, Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, Kourika, Ethan Donaldson, Jamie Ross, Martin Cohen, Erik Gunderson, Jeanny Tsai, Dan Behrman, Nadine McNulty.

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