This is a voyage to the heart of the nomadic tradition who invite you to the Theater Salins for two nights dedicated to Touareg Women

Ensemble Tartit interprets a splendid genre of blues from the desert.

At the time in love with liberty and loyal to their origins, these Touareg women sing about peace. But also about love. And exile. What happens daily with their people.

The Touaregs are a part of the great Berber community of North Africa. Music and poetry occupy a privileged place for them. They live today for one reason, to preserve their cultural identity.

The name of the group Tartit means “union”. A term which is represents the gauntlet of these “blue women” who founded the group. They organized around their griot to sing the traditional songs, but also to to sing of the reality of their people, these nomads which were forced to become refugees. . Robed and seated in a semi-circle, playing a kind of 3-stringed lute (ed note: the tehardant), the drum and the viol, they perpetuate an ancient artform which accompanies celebrations: of marriage, of baptisms, but also divorces, like the “veut de costume”.

Equally in their repertoire are songs of exile. The blues of a land that is thirsty for its roots.