Guitari Baro - Guitar Conversations: balafon & guitar @Music Meeting 2026 | Vrije Geluiden

The combination of the guitar strings – plucked in dazzling and lyrical runs, damped, strummed and unexpected harmonies, – with the complex interlocking and flowery melodic lines on the rosewood keys of the balafon, is hypnotic and entrancing. setlist: 00:00 uitari Baro (trad) 05:13 Bambougou (trad) 09:59 Lamban Blues (trad) 15:42 Mamelles (trad) 20:58 Kolonkan (trad) Lassana Diabaté – balafon Gaoussou Kouyaté – guitar Mamadou “Petit Madou” Koussoube – guitar Guitari Baro—meaning “Guitar Conversations”—is a musical dialogue rooted in a shared Mande griot heritage, drawing on regional styles of the Mande repertoire while referencing jazz, Congolese rumba, rock, Guinean dance bands, and Cuban music, evoking both past and present in sublime, futuristic ways. This video was recorded at historic library Canisius College in Nijmegen, during Music Meeting 2026 for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO   / vrijegeluiden     / vrijegeluiden   Editors: Melchior Huurdeman, Anne-Maartje Lemereis Camera & lighting: Ramon de Boer, Marjolein Hoitinga, Rik Komaromi, Milou Korthouwer Sound: Rens van Waterschoot, Joachim Grevelink Producers: Olivier Schuringa, Nanouk Wouters Director/editing: Reinier Bruijne Editor in Chief: Sakti Khedoe #guitaribaro #vrijegeluiden #balafon #jazz #lassanadiabate #musicmeeting #canisiuscollege #cubanmusic #congoleserumba #mandestyle #npo2 #npo2xtra