1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 We were fortunate to catch up with the kora playing legend,&amp;nbsp;Toumani Diabate, during a tour with his&amp;nbsp;symmetric orchestra&amp;nbsp;on a stop at the&amp;nbsp;University of Rhode Island&amp;nbsp;as part of the 10th anniversairy of the&amp;nbsp;URI Pangea Roots music series&amp;nbsp;back in 2008.He performs&amp;nbsp;solo, with the&amp;nbsp;symmetric orchestra, and on special projects like his most recent collaboration and tour with&amp;nbsp;Bela Fleck.Toumani&amp;nbsp;chats us up on his family of&amp;nbsp;kora&amp;nbsp;players, the connection of his sounds seen in American music, and blending with other types of musicians like&amp;nbsp;Bjorkwhile keeping his original sound.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We highly recommend you experience&amp;nbsp;Toumani Diabate&amp;nbsp;and check out his latest tour and his&amp;nbsp;CD releases! MergingArts Conversations http://www.mergingarts.org <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/1154377/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/3179428