Tags : “Tinariwen”

This is as close as you can get to being at Festival au Desert without actually travelling to the Sahara Desert.

Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Apr 29, 2013

This year's Tuareg music festival in Mali will be exported in the form of "events in exile."

News in Culture — by Richard Marcus — on Feb 22, 2013

A great cross section of music representing the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people of the Northern Sahara.

Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Sep 12, 2012

A beautiful and haunting album proclaiming a people's right to live as they want and celebrating who they are.

Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Aug 30, 2011

Banning one of the biggest international acts from entry into Canada may mark the beginning of a big artistic chill under Steven Harper's Conservation government.

News in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Jul 18, 2011

A call to help a people remind themselves who they are and stand up and be recognized.

Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Oct 12, 2009

Like the movie, the soundtrack speaks with the voice of the film makers, not their subject, the Tuareg.

Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Sep 17, 2009