The Exclusive 'Grand Bal' (Great African Ball) U.S. Tour of Africa's
legendary singer Youssou N'Dour and his band, the Super Etoile Band, will
perform in the following cities only:

New York - Grand Bal - Friday & Saturday, April 12 & 13

Atlanta - Grand Bal (First time) - Sunday, April 14

Washington DC - Concert - Tuesday April 16

Washington DC - A Xaware is being planned for Monday April 15, more details
to come. We could not get a venue befitting Africa's greatest, hence no
Grand Bal for DC - sorry!

For the benefit of those who do not know what the 'Grand Bal' or 'Great
African Ball' is all about, it is an event in which "an array of Africans
from dozens of countries become N'Dour's gleeful co-stars for a night (this
year, for three nights!). Their verve finds expression in an extraordinary
collective spectacle, with the food, fashions and emotions of "Africa in
America" mingling with other kinds of New York and Atlanta energy, and with
N'Dour deftly coaxing the revelers through a musical storyland both timeless
and urgent.

These unhinged, five- to six-hour performances - typical of the way N'Dour
plays in his Thiossane nightclub in Dakar (and of the way Africans party
everywhere) - are not to be missed!

Previous Grand Bals:
New York - 2000 - 3700 attended
Bercy, France - 2001 - 17,000 attended

Latjor

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