
Touki: Amadou Diagne & Cory Seznec
Wed 25 May • 8pm • Full £15 Concs £12 • Music
Who would have guessed that a chance encounter between buskers in the streets of Bath, England over a decade ago would lead to a new musical adventure in 2021? Amadou Diagne from Senegal and French-American Cory Seznec hit it off that Spring day, planting the seeds of a future collaboration in their minds.
Life embarked them on different touki (journey in Wolof), but in 2020 Amadou and Cory joined forces to release their debut album Right of Passage, which Rolling Stone France calls “scintillating…the sequel to Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder’s Talking Timbuktu, revisited and enriched with unique kora-banjo-acoustic guitar combinations of a rare elegance.”
Opening for them will be Bath-native Lawrie Duckworth. In another age, Duckworth would have been a troubadour, a flaneur, a mariachi… going from town to town playing his songs in return for a flagon of wine and a meat pie. In this age… Well, what kind of pies you got? He is a showman, a gunslinger, a lover and a storyteller.
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