African concert

We went to the CCNF, centre culturel franco nigerien, yesterday night to see a concert withMalam Maman Barka. He's the last biram (an instrument) player. It sounded like this:

I found it nice, even if it's not what I usually listen to. The percussion man impressed me when he did a solo at the end.

I experienced a new way of how the audience shows its apprecitaion to the musicians; a man walked up on the stage and put a bill on the man in blue's sweaty (and therefore sticky!) forehead:

This was the instrument, the biram, the man i yellow used:


Malam Maman Barka is going to do a little tour in Europe. He's going to England, Denmark and... Sweden! So you in Sweden can experience this too.