The winner of two Malian national awards for best singer, Sidi is a nationally renowned figure in his home country and is beginning to achieve well-deserved success and critical acclaim aboard.

After the rapturous reception to 2011's Sahel Folk, Sidi released his new album Koima again on Thrill Jockey in April 2012, which Pitchfork described as "a beautiful album... so bright (and) un-apologetically hopeful..."

This concert is presented by Eat Your Owns Ears and The Quietus.

"Hewn from the same deep scam of desert blues that Ali Farka Toure worked" ***** Songlines

"Toure's music is acoustic desert blues that drift between jumpy Tuareg and Songhai rhythms" *** The Times

"This is rippling Malian Balladry of a kind that's now familiar, but is nonetheless engaging and sometimes moving too" The Wire

Sidi Touré - Ni See Ay Ga Done from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

C JOYNES

C Joynes plays solo instrumental guitar, drawing on a range of traditions including trad English music, free improv, and music from North and West Africa. He has released five albums to date through labels such as BoWeavil Recordings and The Great Pop Supplement and has played across Europe and the UK on bills with Alasdair Roberts, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Jack Rose, Josephine Foster, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, James Blackshaw, Sir Richard Bishop and Steffan Basho-Junghans.

“An inheritor to Davy Graham: a lone operator prone to unexpected collaborations, a repertoire that crosses continents and timezones with consummate ease, and dashed off with a phenomenal, yet lightly applied technique.” Rob Young, The Wire