His son Jali Bakary Konteh is a wonderful Kora player also.

Bakary is a lovely young man and an outstanding kora player. We were on Sanyang Beach in The Gambia with Dembo's much younger brother, Jali Sherrifo Konteh and several other jalis. It was a birthday party for Tina my wife. Bakary came walking along the beach with an American woman (Steve Pile's mother, I think). He was carrying his kora. Before long Sherrifo and Bakary were duetting together, taking it in turns to solo whilst the other played an accompanying role. The sheer audacity of the improvisational solos of both in their turn was causing the other to smile. Utterly memorable stuff. I must look out the photos of the occasion.