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We met Cheick Tidiane on the festival charter flight from Bamako to Timbuktu.

A towering figure on the Malian music scene; keyboardist, composer, and performer and arranger of popular and traditional Malian music. He is a prolific and experienced traditional musician with many international musical collaborations under his belt.

He arrived at the festival accompanied by a clutch of home-grown, African and international musical talents to perform at the grande finale of the festival on Saturday night with The Cheick Tidiane Seck jam session.

The small ´óÏó´«Ã½ team visited the guest house where he and the musicians were staying in order to record an interview he had agreed to do with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network Africa in London.

As we tried to get a link with London, he happily chatted away on his mobile phone to his friend and former collaborator, Salif Keita - Cheick Tidiane knows eveyone who's anyone here.

With the interview complete, he agreed to play an acoustic session for us, and as the light faded over the courtyard of the residence in Timbuktu, we set up our cameras to record a moment of Timbuktu magic.

Enjoy Cheick Tidiane Seck singing and playing acoustic guitar accompanied by Malian newcomer, Ché Ché Dramé and Guinean singer, Kabiné Kouyaté. The track is Nebe N'makoun.