Global Arts Live has announced the upcoming streaming film Agadez featuring Nigerien Tuareg musician Bombino. The film will be streamed on Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. (EST). A live conversation with the filmmaker, Ron Wyman, will follow the screening.
Agadez was filmed along with the recording of Bombino’s first album of the same name, beginning in 2010 in Agadez, Niger. The film started as a documentary about the Tuareg nomads of the Sahara Desert who for centuries connected North and West Africa with their camel caravans. After filming with Bombino (also a Tuareg) for a month, the film mostly became about him, his culture, and his music.
Bombino’s music became an inspiration to a new generation of Tuareg adapting to a modern world. The album and the film launched him onto the world stage and follows his meteoric rise from the magnificent desert region where he comes from to recording studios and concerts in Africa, Europe, and the US.
More information at globalartslive.org/content/event_page/9691/
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