Tinariwen
Sunday, July 10th at 6:30PM on the Main Stage
Tinariwen translates to "empty places" which is a fitting name for a Touareg music group that performs a distinct form of electric desert blues by way of the Western Sahara. The band was formed in 1982 in Colonel Ghadaffi's rebel camps where the members of the group, once nomads roaming the Sahara, became fighters in the Touareg insurgency against the Malian government.
Tinariwen's music was born from war, resistance and drought in their homeland. Their radicalized take on the music from their Touareg heritage superimposed with Western electric guitars comes out sounding hypnotic and luring one moment - dangerous and defiant the next. Tinariwen rocks as if their lives depend on it.
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