Tuareg Band Tinariwen Will Perform at Joe's Pub in New York

New York City (New York), USA - Mali's desert guitar rebels, Tinariwen, living legends of contemporary Tuareg (Tamashek) music from the deserts of northern Mali, return to New York. The group will be playing May 1st at 9:30pm + 11:30pm at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. The club is located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (between East 4th and Astor Place).

Tinariwen are the creators of a new and contemporary style of Tuareg music. Tinariwen's music has played a determining role in the growing cultural awareness of the Tuareg youth with songs that are living, imaginative and often profoundly real evocations of the identity of the modern Tuareg people. Theirs is a song of love born in a time of conflict. Exile and resistance were originally the major themes of the songs but as time passed Tinariwen and their songs have expressed the wider struggles of daily life in the Tamashek speaking countries.

Their newest album Amassakoul (World Village) has garnered rave reviews and topped the world music charts in Europe, and their live shows draw comparisons to everyone from John Lee Hooker to Television. As featured artists in the annual Festival in the Desert, Tinariwen have made fans of master musicians such as Robert Plant and the late Ali Farka Toure.