From the front man to They and the Children, to employees of Wallingford’s Redscroll Records, to many a jean-jacketed, patch-adorned holder of the proverbial ‘gansett tallboy, all came out to the ...

Tuareg band Les Filles de Illighadad are headed to the US on tour this spring. The band was founded by Fatou Seidi Ghali, the first Tuareg woman to play guitar professionally in Illighadad, a village ...

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, ...

In Tuareg culture, women rarely play guitar; this Nigerien group breaks with that tradition. Their 2019 live recording captures them at a hypnotic high, far from home but in command of an eager, ...

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