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Tinariwen at Bridges Auditorium.
It is going to be a trek to get there, but consider this:
There’s ample free parking, and we won’t be traveling nearly as far to be here tonight as the evening’s headliners have. Tinariwen come from northern Mali — they and their Tuareg ancestors are Sahara Desert–dwelling,
blue-robed, camel-riding, guitar-toting nomads who have
somehow survived war, privation and the technology-equipped modern world’s gradual encroachment. Their astonishing, spectral proto-blues call-&-response music, now electrified, is the stuff of legend — so good that music enthusiasts have been trekking to a remote location
outside Timbuktu in recent years to experience the annual “Festival in the Desert” that Tinariwen help organize. Tonight’s show, also featuring Markus James, Ramatou Diakte and Blackfire, is a slimmed-down simulation of that event: If you dig Ali Farka Toure, John Lee Hooker,
Junior Kimbrough, the Black Keys and/or the Master Musicians of Jajouka, you will not want to miss this, no matter how clogged the 10 freeway is. Claremont favorite son/folkie Ben Harper will also be making a special appearance. 11/05/04 >> go there
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