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Fatoumata Diawara (a.k.a. Fatou) was born of Malian parents in the Ivory Coast in 1982. As a child she became a member of her father’s dance troupe and was a popular performer of the wildly flailing didadi dance from Wassoulou, her ancestral home in western Mali. She was an energetic and headstrong girl and at the age of 12 her refusal to go to school prompted her parents to send her to live and be disciplined by an aunt in Bamako. She was not to see her parents again for more than a decade. 

Her aunt was an actress, and a few years after arriving, Diawara found herself on a film set looking after her aunt’s infant child. The film’s director was captivated by Diawara’s adolescent beauty and she was given a one-line part in the final scene of the film Taafe Fangan (The Power of Women). This led to a lead role in a film by the celebrated director Cheick Omar Sissoko: 1999’s La Genèse (Genesis). 

At the age of 18 Diawara travelled to Paris to perform the classical Greek role of Antigone on stage. After touring with the production she returned to Mali where she was given the lead in Dani Kouyaté’s popular 2001 film Sia, The Dream of the Python. The film tells the story of a West African legend called Sia, a young girl who defies tradition. To many in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and Burkina Faso, Diawara is Sia thanks to the film’s enormous success throughout the region.

Offers for further acting roles poured in but Diawara’s family wanted her to settle down and marry and forced her to announce, live on Malian television, that she was abandoning her career as an actress. 

In 2002 Jean-Louis Courcoult, the director of the renowned French theatre company, Royale de Luxe, travelled to Bamako to offer Diawara a part in his new production. An unmarried woman is considered a minor in Malian society so her family’s permission was required. They refused. After much soul-searching Diawara took the daring decision to run away and at the Bamako airport she managed to board a plane for Paris, narrowly escaping the pursuit of the police who had been alerted to the girl’s “kidnapping.” 

With Royal de Luxe, Diawara performed a variety of roles around the world including tours in Vietnam and Mexico and throughout Europe. During rehearsals and quiet moments she took to singing backstage for her own amusement. She was overheard by the director and was soon singing solo during the company’s performances. Encouraged by the reception from audiences she began to sing in Parisian clubs and cafes during breaks from touring. Here she met Cheikh Tidiane Seck the celebrated Malian musician and producer who invited her to travel with him back to Mali to work on two projects as chorus vocalist; Seya, the Grammy–nominated album by Malian singer Oumou Sangaré, and Red Earth, the Grammy–winning Malian project by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. When the albums were released Diawara toured worldwide as singer and dancer with both artists. 

Simple and genuine, colourful and passionate. LE compose Indie for the eyes and the heart. A dreamy voice is falling in love with sweet chords, growling basslines and electric vibes. London Elephants sing about lost and found lovers, giving hope to young souls. Grab your loved ones and get ready for a captivating experience with your elephants in the room!

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alt-J are Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Thom Green. They returned in 2022 with their latest album, The Dream.  

alt-J are one of the most successful British bands of the millennium. Their 2012 Mercury Prize and Ivor Novello Award-winning debut An Awesome Wave, was followed two years later by their number one, GRAMMY and BRIT Award-nominated album This Is All Yours. Released in 2017, RELAXER flew straight into the top 10 of the UK album chart ahead of a summer of major international shows - including a headline show at London’s O2 Arena and headline performances at numerous festivals - and became their second album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize.

L'orchestrina è un contrabbasso, una tromba, un pianoforte e una fisarmonica, una chitarra, tante percussioni e due voci. Una piccola orchestra di sei elementi nella quale ognuno di noi è musicista, autore, arrangiatore e fedele sostenitore. 

Con la nostra musica proponiamo pezzi originali, influenzati dal cantautorato italiano classico, così come brani più corali, di atmosfera o dall'andatura popolare. Il filo comune è un delicato sound acustico e testi in italiano originali. Proponiamo anche brani di musica italiana dei nostri artisti preferiti come Vinicio Capossela, Fabrizio De André, Paolo Conte ed altri.

A oggi, ci siamo esibiti in diverse situazioni: locali, teatri e strade del centro-Italia e del sud della Francia, anche in formazione totalmente acustica. 
A settembre 2013 abbiamo autoprodotto un EP di sei tracce, gratuitamente reperibile online, che sintetizza in modo sincero il primo anno di attività. 

Il nuovo album, Vento Largo, è disponibile da settembre 2015 su Spotify: 
https://play.spotify.com/album/5gQF5xi9CDBWtUqux3muLD

Formazione de L’orchestrina : 
Daniele Cannella: voce, chitarra acustica, mandolino, ukulele e armonica
Natalia Puglia: voce e piccole percussioni
Giampiero Mazzocchi: piano e fisarmonica
Simone Curzi: tromba e flicorno
Laura Tirabassi: batteria e cajon
Michele Mazzocchi: contrabbasso e basso


Contacts: 
lapostadellorchestrina@gmail.com
lorchestrina.bandpage.com

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