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If you would like to join our email list, just send an email to laminesabar@yahoo.com and request that we put you on.....or just come to one of our shows and sign up there!

We are pleased to announce that a new live cd which contains 3 tracks from our show at the Berklee Performance Center is now available at all of our upcoming performances! 

If you would like us to send you one, please contact us at laminesabar@yahoo.com

Nangadef (Hello!)

The summer is finally in full swing and we have officially begun our summer tour '07.  Hope to see you all out there!

Here are the dates:

6/16:  Providence, RI; Tazza Cafe, 250 Westminster St., Providence, RI, 9PM

7/14:  Brooklyn, NY, @ Zebulon, 258 Wythe ST, Brooklyn, NY 11221, 10PM

7/19:  Burlington, VT, Battery Park Concert, 6PM

7/21:  Montreal, QC, Festival Nuit D'Afrique, 8PM

7/27:  Cambridge, MA, Lizard Lounge,  1667 Massachusetts Ave, 9:30 PM

Last Wednesday, the world lost one of African music's greatest ambassadors. It is with great sadness that I share the news of Mamadou Konté's death on June 20, 2007, in Dakar, Senegal. He was 62 years old.

Mamadou Konté was the founder and director of Africa Fête. A Malian immigrant in France during the 1960s, Konté became active in fighting for improved living conditions for immigrant laborers. In order to raise money for this cause, he organized the first Africa Fête concert in 1978, which attracted over 10,000 people. Soon after he began serving as producer, manager and agent for artists such as Touré Kunda, Manu Dibango, and Xalam. Konté organized Youssou Ndour's first major European tour, and launched the international careers of countless African musicians including Salif Keita, Ismael Lo, Angelique Kidjo, Baaba Maal and Positive Black Soul. Since 1995, Konté and Africa Fête have been based in Dakar, Senegal, always helping to support and promote new musical talent. The Africa Fête festival is held in Dakar every year in conjunction with World AIDS day.

Mamadou Konté believed first and foremost that music can and should play an active role in the economic development of African countries. He has helped to create laws to protect the rights of musicians and composers, and has led the fight against music piracy in Senegal and throughout Africa.

Mamadou was an amazing human being with a generous heart and a witty sense of humor whose passion for African music influenced everyone around him. I feel very lucky to have known him and worked with him over the past 10 years. He was a close friend to many of us and we will miss him dearly

 To read more about Mamadou Konté and Africa Fête, or to express your condolences online, please visit www.africafete.com.

Patricia Tang
6/24/2007 – Dakar

Just do a search for "Lamine Toure & Group Saloum" on your itunes homepage to purchase singles or the whole album!

Men and women's style in small, med, & Large.  They are Black with the album logo in the red gold and green! 

Our Debut self-titled CD is available nation wide.  Go to itunes, www.nomadicwax.com, www.laminetoure.com or www.calabashmusic.com (for digital downloads) to purchase.....Here's what our good freind Banning Eyre recently has said  about us:

"Lamine Toure & Group Saloum  kick  out a hard-hitting dance mix that spans the percussive fury of Senegalese m'balax  and the joyful uplift of Congolese soukouss"- Banning Eyre, Boston Pheonix

"From Boston, a spectacular Afropop act specializing in but not limited to, Senegalese m'balax"- Afopop worldwide