POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBA

Multiflora Productions and Rhizome present a special early evening concert with Cheick Hamala Diabate and Rumput.

Born in Mali and based in Maryland, Cheick Hamala Diabate is a steward of the 800-year-old West African griot tradition. Oral historians, singers and musicians, griots belong to a special social caste and are part of a hereditary lineage passed from parent to child. Under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather, the griot Demba Tounkara, Cheick was taught, and soon mastered, the ngoni, a traditional stringed lute considered one of the ancestors of the banjo.

Richmond-based Rumput performs innovative stringband music and shadow theater, often collaborating with artists and composers based in Indonesia. Their July 30 performance at Rhizome will include scrolling artwork by Indonesian artists and members of Rumput.