Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse presents Derek Gripper & Yacouba Sissoko
Littlefield Room, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704-1104 USA
8:00 PM, Wednesday, October 6, 2021

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[8:06 PM] {lights down, announcements, performers out}

1. [8:09 PM] Nostalgia
   [8:16 PM] {welcoming comments by YS & DG}
2. [8:18 PM] Missing You
   [8:24 PM] {DG talks about his last pre-pandemic tour and whales}
3. [8:26 PM] Koortjie for the Kommetjie Whales
   [8:29 PM] {DG yack about first hearing the kora}
4. [8:32 PM] Tita
   [8:36 PM] {YS introduces the next tune; false start; more talk}
5. [8:39 PM] Dounaugna
   [8:46 PM] {DG talks about the plusses & minuses of getting back on tour}
6. [8:49 PM] Seeing Nobody
   [8:52 PM] {DG talk about being stuck in NYC; YS introduces the next song, ? “Joula” (maybe Tougoude?) as a paean to the traders who bring exotic goods from around the world to the marketplaces of Bamako}
7. [8:54 PM] ? “Joula”
   {DG introduction for Chiwo, then pause for kora tuning & kora tuning jokes}
8. [9:04 PM] Chiwo
   [9:10 PM] {DG: watch talk; more tour talk; zoom talk}
9. [9:12 PM] ?
   [9:19 PM] {set ends}
    
   Encore
10. [9:20 PM] ?
    [9:24 PM] {show ends; lights up after a minute or so for applause}

• Derek Gripper: ?8-string guitar;
• Yacouba Sissoko: kora, vox.

Tonight's show was really good, but I would have been happier with something longer: between the song introductions and story-telling, the musical performance time was hardly more than 50 minutes. Helps me decide that a drive down to Stanford for the show on Friday or the free workshop on Saturday isn't worth the payoff considering that traffic is likely to take up at least two hours each full trip.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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