Editing Bamako (section)

===Music===
A music boom in Bamako took off in the 1990s, when vocalist [[Salif Keita]] and singer-guitarist [[Ali Farka Touré]] achieved international fame.<ref name="NYT 06">{{cite web|author=Hammer, Joshua |url=http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/travel/02mali.html?ex=1144641600&en=5d9d61a127019b74&ei=5070&emc=eta1/ |title=The Siren Song of Mali |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2 April 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311121110/http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/travel/02mali.html?ex=1144641600&en=5d9d61a127019b74&ei=5070&emc=eta1%2F |archive-date=11 March 2007 }}</ref> It attracted a number of tourists, record producers, and aspiring musicians to the city to try to follow in their footsteps. It is common to see musicians in the streets with ''[[djembe]]s'' and percussion bands playing traditional Bamana rhythms.<ref name="NYT 06" />