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Sunday, June 26, 2011 | 7:00 PM

Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall :: 4544 N Lincoln Ave.

Group Doueh

$20 General Public/$18 Old Town School Members/$16 Seniors & Children

On sale to Old Town School members on Thursday, April 7th.
On sale to general public Friday, April 8th.

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If you think you've heard all the great electric guitar styles in the world, think again. Group Doueh play raw and unfiltered Saharawi music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara. Doueh (pronounced "Doo-way") is their leader and a master of the electric guitar. He's been performing since he was a child playing in many groups before finally creating his own in the 1980s. Doueh says he's Influenced by western pop and rock music especially Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. His sound is distorted, loud and unhinged with an impressive display of virtuosity and style only known in this part of the world. His wife Halima and friend Bashiri are the two vocalists in the group. Saharawi songs are from the sung poetry of the Hassania language. The music is based on the same modal structure as Mauritanian music, however, Doueh's style is a looser appropriation infused with a western guitar scope, one that relies, in his words, as much on Hendrix as it does traditional Sahrawi music. It also adds a playful pop element that rarely filters through in this region.

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