MARIAM of Amadou and Mariam - 'L'Amour à la Folie'
Changemakers Series
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Sony Hall – 235 West 46th Street, Manhattan
Doors: 6 PM | Show: 8 PM
Tickets: Tickets: $42.50 | $47.50 | $75
WMI Member price: $34 | $38 | $60
Co-Presented with Sony Hall
For over forty years, Amadou & Mariam joyfully intertwined their love story with a musical career that established them as cherished ambassadors of Malian and African music worldwide. The Grammy Award-nominated husband-and-wife duo graced the stages of the world’s largest festivals and opened for rock legends like U2 and Coldplay. Following Amadou’s passing in April 2025, it was Mariam’s wish to return to the stage with their final album entitled L’Amour à la Folie, an album that honors their shared legacy and closes their extraordinary story together with grace and love.
Written and recorded together over seven years, the album captures the duo’s enduring chemistry and spirit. Completed while Amadou was still alive, it carries a deep emotional weight, its songs resonating as echoes beyond time. The album will be released on October 24.
This tribute concert is part of our Changemakers series, in recognition of the couple’s tireless work as ambassadors for Sightsavers International, campaigning to end discrimination against children with disabilities, and fundraising for the Bamako Institute for the Young Blind, where they famously met and fell in love.
The CHANGEMAKERS series highlights artists who, aside from enriching lives through the arts, positively impact society and their communities via their philanthropic, advocacy, and/or educational contributions and activism.