Fatoumata Diawara & Alasdair Roberts at Millennium Park

Fatoumata Diawara returns to the US to perform at Millennium Park. Tall, superbly poised and elegant, with an iridescent smile, this sometime star of African film draws elements of jazz and funk into an exquisitely sparse contemporary folk sound – refracting the rocking rhythms and plaintive melodies of her ancestral Wassoulou tradition through an instinctive pop sensibility.