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Touki Booking Agency Profile

Book Touki for your next corporate event, function, or private party.
Amadou Diagne has access to centuries' worth of West African music. Uncertified ethnomusicologist Cory Seznec is a musical nomad. A fortuitous meeting during a busking gig in Bath sowed the roots of a partnership that has been developing for more than ten years. With the help of a renowned Arts Council of England grant and the release of their sophomore album, Plastic Man, which was produced at the storied Real World Studios, those seedlings are quickly taking off.
Touki, Diagne's maternal tongue in Wolof, means "journey." Plastic Man weaves together personal narratives, West African folktales, and the social, political, and economic struggles that both developing and developed nations face to address climate change, environmental activism, and spiritual issues. These are political, spiritual, and ecological problems posed by this music.
Seznec is a French-American living in Paris. He plays quirky, cross-pollinated, polyrhythmic, and syncopated fingerstyle guitar. In addition, he plays the banjo and explores the vast depths of American song. His exploits busking with Malian musicians in the Paris subway brought him to Timbuktu's Songhai songsters and Western Kenya's old omutibo guitarists. His sea legs came from a feverish tour with the world roots duo Groanbox. However, it was a three-year stay in Ethiopia that finally broke everything down. These encounters molded Seznec into a musician whose songs allow the past to echo into the present and who explores the common thread between various musical cultures..

How to hire Touki for an event

Learn how to hire Touki or research availability and pricing for booking Touki to perform at a corporate event, fundraiser, private party, social media campaign, fair or festival, tradeshow or conference, endorsement project, or hire Touki as a guest speaker, please submit the form to our agency.

Frequently Asked Questions about booking Touki to perform.

Many performers, actors, speakers and other talent like Touki in certain cases will consider virtual appearances via live streaming. They perhaps may accept lower fees too. If you are seriously interested in booking Touki or other talent shown on our site, we will research their desire and the specific fee for your live-streaming event or project request.
Touki's current work schedule and location in relation to your event's type, date, budget, and locality will play a primary factor in the acceptance of booking Touki for your party. As long as your funding is commensurate with the price range to book Touki, CTI will propose your event to the official agency representing Touki. After we consult with them, we will provide a personal and accurate quote that includes: final costs, availability, and actual interest in being hired for your specific event or party.
CTI can give you the accurate Touki booking price once we submit your event details to their camp. "How much does it cost to book Touki for an event?" is a frequent question we get. The final Touki booking price is contingent on many variables and the booking fee we may show is based on a range derived from our past experience with what will Touki charge for an event. An example fee to book Touki is in the starting range of $40,000-$74,999. However, any recent popularity change would cause a price fluctuation well beyond this example. Also, their speaking fee might be different than the fee shown for the cost to perform or to just appear. Popularity, career stage, along with current demand will cause fluctuations in their speaking price as well. The final booking price may be more than what is shown, but you should at least have a budget within that range for them to consider an appearance, performance or speaking engagement.
CTI negotiates on behalf of professional event planners and talent buyers for paid appearances! We cannot give out direct contact information of the Touki agent or help distribute fan mail, personal messages, gifts, requests for free appearances, or donations of time. The Touki manager and agent will only work with us if we present them with funded offers for their client to work your event.
There is low probability to book Touki for a party with anything substantially less than the published booking cost price range. We will negotiate with the Touki agent on your behalf if your funding is in place. By not having funding ready then it will more difficult to book Touki, because they get many offers to work events that are at or above asking price. It is also important to consider the travel costs when researching the Touki booking fee, as additional expenses like this, as well as an entourage of staff and equipment, are not necessarily built-in to the booking fee range shown. If your budget does not factor that in, then there is no benefit for them to want to be hired. We do not personally speak for Touki, but in our experience in booking talent for over 25 years, this is generally the outcome of inadequate funding.
Type
Performer
Style
Afrocentric
Range
Afrocentric, World Music-African, Male, Age Group-18-30's, American, French, African
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