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Farafina is a music and dance group from Burkina Faso, established in 1978. Burkina Faso (bɚˌkiːnəˈfɑːsoʊ burr-KEE-na FAH-soh) also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a Landlocked nation in West Africa The eight-member group is Burkina Faso's best known musical group, and one of Africa's most internationally prominent musical groups. [1]

Farafina was founded in the southern city of Bobo Dioulasso by the balafon player Mahama Konaté, a member of the Senufo ethnic group and a performer with Burkina Faso's national ballet. Bobo-Dioulasso is a city with a population of about 435543 ( As of 2006) the second biggest city in Burkina Faso, Africa, after Ouagadougou The Senufo (the Francophone spelling Senoufo is commonly used are an ethnolinguistic group composed of diverse subgroups of Gur -speaking people living

The group uses voices and instruments including as the balafon, kora, djembe, bara, tama, doum'doum, shekere, and keyboard. The balafon ( bala, balaphone) is a resonated frame wooden keyed Percussion idiophone of West Africa; part of the Idiophone family The kora is a 21- string Harp - Lute used extensively by peoples in West Africa. A djembe (ˈdʒɛmbeɪ JEM-bay) also known as djimbe, jenbe, jembe, yembe, or sanbanyi in Susu is a skin covered The shekere is a percussion instrument from Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard.

The group has toured internationally. In 1985 they played at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and in 1988 performed for 72,000 listeners at at the birthday party of Nelson Mandela in Wembley Stadium, London. The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music Festival in Switzerland, Europe's most prestigious Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (xolíɬaɬa mandéːla born 18 July 1918 is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative Wembley Stadium is a Stadium in Wembley, located in the London Borough of Brent in London, England. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. In 1993 they toured the United States and Canada, and have performed since then in Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Farafina was one of the groups which played in 1999 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the House of World Cultures in Berlin. That same year, the group also played at the Womad Festival in Singapore.

They have collaborated and recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jon Hassell, and The Rolling Stones. Jon Hassell (born March 22, 1937) is an American Trumpet player and Composer.

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With Ryuichi Sakamoto

With The Rolling Stones

With Jon Hassell

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Steel Wheels is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1989
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