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Tiny Desk Playlist: Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl's favorite Tiny Desk concerts

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Tiny Desk Playlist: Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl's favorite Tiny Desk concerts

December 3, 2021 • Actors Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl pick their favorite Tiny Desk concerts, and the ones that made them first fall in love with the series.

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Amadou and Mariam: Tiny Desk Concert

January 19, 2018 • The Malian musicians, who've been playing together for nearly 40 years, bring some of the most lyrical melodies and joyful sounds we've ever had at the Tiny Desk.

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September 22, 2017 • Amadou and Mariam are two blind musicians from Mali who met, fell in love with each other's musicianship and became global Afropop sensations. The duo performs music from its new album, La Confusion.

Amadou And Mariam On World Cafe

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Latitudes: 50 Years Of Nonesuch, 10 Essential Recordings

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Latitudes: 50 Years Of Nonesuch, 10 Essential Recordings

September 30, 2014 • The label has become a crucial ambassador, introducing many world-music artists to American fans. Hear 10 songs from across Nonesuch's remarkable 50-year history.

Watch A Supergroup From Mali Sing For Peace

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All Songs Considered

Watch A Supergroup From Mali Sing For Peace

January 18, 2013 • In a beautiful and powerful new song, Fatoumata Diawara, Amadou and Mariam, Oumou Sangare and nearly 40 more top musicians from Mali join together for one purpose: to help bring peace back to their shattering country.

Amadou And Mariam: Finding Mali In Harlem

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Field Recordings

Amadou And Mariam: Finding Mali In Harlem

April 11, 2012 • When Malian superstars Amadou and Mariam happened to find themselves with an extra day in New York recently, we invited them up to The Shrine in Harlem to sing an unplugged version of "Wily Kataso."

First Listen: Amadou And Mariam, 'Folila'

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First Listen: Amadou And Mariam, 'Folila'

April 1, 2012 • Hear a lilting and fun project that mashes up the West African stars with some of their biggest fans, including TV on the Radio and Santigold.

Hear 'Folila' In Its Entirety

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World Cafe

Amadou And Mariam: Afro-Pop Goes Global

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April 22, 2009 • Malian husband-and-wife duo Amadou and Mariam began recording together in the 1980s, and soon flourished by adding Syrian violins, Cuban trumpets and Indian tablas to their infectious African blues-rock, Western pop and funk. On their new album, Welcome to Mali, the pair sings in English and French instead of their native Bambara.

Amadou And Mariam: Afro-Pop Goes Global

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All Songs Considered

Bob Dylan, Sam Phillips, Grizzly Bear, More

April 6, 2009 • On this edition of All Songs Considered we've got Bob Dylan, Sam Phillips, Jill Sobule, Amadou and Mariam, Karin Dreijer Andersson, a collaboration between Orenda Fink and Scalpelist and Grizzly Bear.

Bob Dylan, Sam Phillips, Grizzly Bear, More

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Amadou And Mariam: Well Beyond Mali

March 26, 2009 • The self-billed "blind couple of Mali" have been recording since the '80s, but they've never stuck to one style. On Welcome to Mali, Amadou and Mariam absorb ideas from everywhere and sound like they're having a ball.

Amadou And Mariam: Well Beyond Mali

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All Things Considered

Help with Holiday Shopping

December 9, 2006 • Are you starting to panic about holiday gift shopping? Never fear. Cultural concierge Jesse Kornbluth of Head Butler suggests some musical gift choices.

Help with Holiday Shopping

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Top Music Picks for 2005

Will Hermes' Top 10 CDs of 2005

December 17, 2005 • All Things Considered music reviewer Will Hermes shares his picks for the 10 best CDs of 2005, from the "wonderfully strange" world of Animal Collective to the "gorgeous hymn rock" of Sigur Ros.

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Top Music Picks for 2005

Cuing Up the Year's Best Music

November 27, 2005 • For the holiday edition, a selection of the year's best music. Choices range from Afro-Celt to Britain's Imogen Heap to the benefit compilation Our New Orleans.

Cuing Up the Year's Best Music

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Blindness No Barrier: Music of Amadou and Mariam

September 19, 2005 • Malian performers Amadou and Mariam met during the 1970s at the Institute for the Young Blind of Mali. The husband-and-wife team have overcome numerous obstacles, from blindness to living under a military dictatorship. Banning Eyre reviews their CD, Dimanche a Bamako. They began a U.S. tour this week.

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All Songs Considered

A Sufjan Stevens exclusive, Amadou & Mariam, Philip Glass

July 6, 2005 • Download an exclusive by Sufjan Stevens; Nashville singer/songwriter Doug Hoekstra; Québécois singer and cellist Jorane; A medley from The Celtic Fiddle Festival and more.

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September 11, 2001

September 11, 2001 • As NPR covered the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, it was music that gave listeners time to reflect, to digest the events and the impact.

September 11, 2001

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