Wednesday, July 20th
9:30 pm
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
(between 4th St. and Astor Place)
$20.00 (Buy Tickets)
Don't miss the return of Mali's desert guitar rebels Tinariwen, living legends of contemporary Touareg (Tamashek) music from the deserts of northern Mali, whose US debut at Joe's Pub last October was selected by Time Out NY as one of the Top concerts of 2004. Tinariwen are the creators of a new and contemporary style of Touareg music, often simply referred to as guitar, which MOJO magazine calls "just about the best blues experience this far north of the Sahara".
Tinariwen's music has played a determining role in the growing cultural awareness of the Touareg youth with songs that are living, imaginative and often profoundly real evocations of the identity of the modern Touareg people. Theirs is a song of love born in a time of conflict. Exile and resistance were originally the major themes of the songs but as time passed Tinariwen and their songs have expressed the wider struggles of daily life in the Tamashek speaking countries.
