From Dakar to Da Jazz in Cork 
Sat, 25 Oct, 2025
Orchestra Baobab, founded in 1970 in Dakar, is a legendary band and a pillar of African music; originally inspired by Afro-Cuban rhythms, they developed a distinctive sound fusing Mandinka, Wolof, and Serer traditions with Latin influences, as Ronan Leonard discovers ahead of their performance at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.