Voyageur, the new album from the legendary African guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré, is out March 10 on World Circuit Records. In anticipation of the forthcoming record World Circuit is debuting ...

The Center for the Arts is pleased to present Vieux Farka Touré in the Marisa Funk Theater on February 13, 2024. Often referred to as “The Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré was born in ...

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When Malian guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré won a Grammy for his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, his reputation as the “African John Lee Hooker” spread worldwide. But Touré ...

These days the genre of desert blues boasts one of the most vibrant music movements around the world. The bands and musicians that are part of this genre come from an area that is spread across ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Guitar is the family business for Vieux Farka Touré. Touré, the son of Malian guitar legend Ali Farka Touré, has ...

A spinning top occasionally wobbles. Our spinning earth does the same thing: it's called the "Chandler Wobble." Because of the Chandler Wobble, monsoon rains in the Sahara appear then disappear every ...

Also there are fewer nods towards hip hop or the dance floor. Instead the emphasis is on measured fluidity and widescreen grandeur. In other words, if we continue to draw parallels with Ali Farka ...

As a recent in-depth piece in the New Yorker magazine reported, Mali, in northwest Africa, has become a recent battleground among ethnic and religious factions, with the threat of Islamist extremists ...

Our music reporter Ben Sisario takes us on a journey through West Africa’s guitar music scene past and present, highlighting a handful of songs from the genre’s most innovative and influential bands.

Vieux Farka Touré is the son of the late Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré. While his father had hoped he would steer away from the music business as a harsh place to work, Vieux found a mentor in ...