PUBLISHED: May 01, 2014
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With support from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, through their Folk Arts Outreach Project, the Virginia Folklife Program brought Malian griot and n'goni player Cheick Hamala Diabate together with master bluegrass banjoist Sammy Shelor and multi-instrumentalist Danny Knicely in Charlottesville, Virginia, for three days of collaboration, fellowship and musical exchange.