Mdou Moctar
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2024
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
1560 New Bushy Branch Rd
Manchester, Tennessee 37355
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Thursday, June 13
Friday, June 14
Saturday, June 15
Sunday, June 16
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June 13–16, 2024
1560 New Bushy Branch Rd, Manchester, Tennessee
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Mdou Moctar Biography
With "Afrique Victime" the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.
The music listeners are the beneficiaries of the staggeringly powerful do-it-yourself musical ethic of Mdou Moctar – the man and the band – who’ve worked so hard to bring the spirits of families and communities in Niger to the West. Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.
Read MoreThe music listeners are the beneficiaries of the staggeringly powerful do-it-yourself musical ethic of Mdou Moctar – the man and the band – who’ve worked so hard to bring the spirits of families and communities in Niger to the West. Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.
Desert Rock
Genre Tamashek Guitar Or Assouf
Rock
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