Amatssou, the new album from Tuareg desert blues pioneers Tinariwen, begins with a question. “Why so much silence, all over the world / Only spilt blood / Only brave men killed?,” Abdallah Ag ...

Bombino, the desert bluesman who helped popularize the eclectic, electric sound of the Sahara, showed off his guitar genius Saturday night in the Finger Lakes. The soft-spoken but strong-strumming ...

Grammy winning group to open Concert Hall 2015 series on Aug. 22 World music comes to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College as the Saharan blues band Tinariwen opens the 2015-2016 season at ...

A bunch of American indie-rockers saunter into a bar, take up a host of continent-spanning, percussive African instruments, and start jamming out a jubilant, guitar-driven, border-hopping sound that ...

Mali guitar legend Ali Farka Touré’s son has wisely chosen to adapt his dad’s Saharan blues guitar style into a Western-influenced instrument of raw electric power, and he has a terrific new live ...

‘Saharan blues’: Concert benefits the Tuareg people of West Africa. Members of the Tidawt musical group from Niger; Markus James and the Wassonrai; Mickey Hart; and Zakir Hussain perform. [8 p.m., ...