Fatour Seidi Ghali is surely not the first person to become enamored of an older sibling’s guitar. When she was about ten, her older brother, Ahmoudou Madassane (who currently plays rhythm guitar for ...

Last month, on a warm Tuesday evening, Les Filles de Illighadad—a guitar-based Tuareg quartet from western Niger—played for a sold-out crowd at Pioneer Works, an art and performance space in Red Hook, ...