Sidiki, Terre & Pablo Maybe

Sidiki, Terre, and Pablo Maybe, is a new World sound fused from the musical stylings of folk legend Terre Roche, and West African sensation Sidiki Conde.

Born in Guinea, West Africa, Sidiki Conde is regarded as a master of the traditional arts of drumming, singing and dancing. At age fourteen, Sidiki lost the use of his legs when afflicted with polio. Determined to continue in the West African musical tradition, he learned to dance with his hands. He has founded Message de Espoir, an orchestra of artists-with-disabilities from the streets of Guinea, and New York based Tokounou All-Abilities Dance and Music Ensemble. AllAboutJazz.com writes, Sidiki Conde “is music with global appeal.”

His creative partner Terre Roche of iconic folk group, The Roches, recently
collaborated with pianist Garry Dial, and others including Sidiki, to create US An’Them— a 2008 album that offers a global take on national anthems. Terre has sung and played with The Roches on over a dozen albums, and made her solo debut with her 1998 release, The Sound of a Tree Falling. She has recorded with Phillip Glass, Paul Simon and the Indigo Girls. Together as Sidiki, Terre and Pablo, Maybe, Terre Roche and Sidiki Conde explore music as a global phenomenon.

- Andrew Clemmer