11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents
Tinariwen
- When
- Sun Feb 21, 2010
- Where
- Palace of Fine Arts
- Time
- 7:00pm
- Cost
- $25 - $65
- Tags
- Music
Description
Tinariwen, who create otherworldly guitar music rooted in the blues, have become the most unlikely of modern success stories. Drawing its members from the Touareg, a much repressed tribal people who are exiled from their native Mali, Tinariwen developed their expansive, rolling guitar sound over years spent in desert isolation. An amalgam of North African, Western blues and rock influences has converged organically to forge the trademark Tinariwen gestalt. Their broad fan base includes icons Robert Plant, Carlos Santana and the members of U2, who were inspired to record in North Africa by this spiritually rich music. Tinariwen’s extended, improvisatory songs are celebratory even as they pulse with the melancholy ache of exile. 2009’s Imidiwan: Companions is another international bestseller that finds Tinariwen further redefining the meaning of the blues.More Info
- Link
- http://www.sfjazz.org
- Call
- 866-920-5299 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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