People Are Talking About…Baaba Maal
Submitted by Jim Leija on April 12, 2010 – 11:42 am5 Comments
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Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?
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To my husband and I (older people), it was an amazing concert, full of .life and love and understanding. Watching Baaba Maal and his group was a great experience. We wish that the party had taken place at the Michigan theater ( as opposed to the Union) we definitely would have stayed and continued our dancing. It would probably have been easier at the Theater to promote the understanding that Mr Maal was advocating. Non students do not like to go to other venues.
The generosity of Mr Maal towards other performers who jumped on the stage uninvited and to the audience who danced with him the whole way, was amazing. We hope that you will bring the group back another time and will return with many friends in tow. Try bringing Yousou N' Dour as well….Thank you
I HAVE BEEN I BAABA MAAL FOR MANY YEARS. THIS WAS MY FOURTH CONCERT AND HE JUST GETS BETTER WITH AGE. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE SAT. NIGHT SO WONDERFUL!! BILL KIPP- LUDINGTON
Fantastic concert! I really enjoyed Baaba's explanation of the importance of music in their village; he had described how musicians gather slowly in the middle of the village most nights to play and dance together as a community. Not only did he explain it but he invited us to experience it in the theater as our own spontaneous community, crossing race and culture in a way that I had not really known. Thanks to Baaba and his band for coming, to UMS for bringing him, and to my fellow audience members for letting go and just dancing and celebrating together. WELL DONE!
saturday night baaba maal was at the michigan theater in ann arbor. he brought with him 8 musicans. baaba began in robes of red & gold , sat & played an acoustic prayer. then the stage exploded into a primal transcendental celebration of warriors , holy men & hunter-gatherers. ive waited 10 years to see baaba maal. it was worth it. ameen brother!
The Baaba Maal concert was one of the best concerts I have attended. It was more than a concert, it was a beautiful experience. I wish people who would pay $175.00 to see acts like Lady Gaga could have and opportunity to see something like this.