Tours: Tinariwen
Tinariwen
Tinariwen
visit artist websiteFeaturing spiritually uplifting melodies, beguiling guitar patterns and insinuating rhythms, Tinariwen's desert blues is at once bang up to date and timeless.
Forged in the heat of the Southern Sahara, this nomadic people's songs reflect the daily lives of the Touaregs, a landless tribe scattered across the Sahara and into Libya by political change and conflict during the 1980s. Tinariwen formed ten years later, creating a new music based on their own traditions and incorporating western and Arabic sounds heard in their wanderings.
They co-founded the now annual and internationally prestigious Festival in the Desert, scored a worldwide success with their second album, Amassakoul, and since winning the African section of the BBC 3 World Music Awards 2005, have continued to charm audiences with their music's trance-like beauty.
| Date | Artist(s) | Venue | Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 26th Mar 2007 | Tinariwen | Bonar Hall, Dundee | 01382 434940, 01382 228496 |
| Tue 27th Mar 2007 | Tinariwen | Eden Court in Exile @ The Ironworks, Inverness | 01463 234234 http://www.thebooth.co.uk/ |
| Wed 28th Mar 2007 | Tinariwen | The Buccleuch Centre, Langholm | 013873 81196 |
| Thu 29th Mar 2007 | Tinariwen | Arches, Glasgow | Arches Theatre - 0870 240 7528 |
| Fri 30th Mar 2007 | Tinariwen | Queens Hall, Edinburgh | Queen's Hall - 0131 668 2019 |
| Sat 31st Mar 2007 | Tinariwen | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen | 01224 642 230, www.lemontree.org |