At Home with Fatoumata Diawara
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. For this episode, it鈥檚 the turn of Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara.
With summer touring schedules on hold and festivals cancelled, musicians continue to look to their own four walls for inspiration. How are they coping without live audiences? And is this period of restricted movement, stifling or stirring creativity? From her garage studio in Wiltshire, Verity Sharp is dialling up musicians around the UK and beyond who are rooted in global traditions, exercising their home-recording skills, and asking them to share songs that reflect how they are feeling. In this episode, Fatoumata Diawara is inspired to share the first song she ever wrote and to talk about the early life experiences that shaped her music.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3.
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