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 ...

Matsuli music remembers the great Malian musician, Ali Farka Toure: “Cancer claimed Ali Farka Toure's life earlier this year. I'm thankful we can continue to feel his presence in the recordings he has ...

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 ...

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Malian master guitarist, vocalist, and social activist Vieux Farka Touré will return to Brooklyn Bowl. Vieux Farka Touré, known as "The Hendrix of the Sahara," was born in 1981 in Mali and is the son ...

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 ...

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 ...