Etran Finatawa

Shaped in Niger in 2004, this group includes traditional Arab and African music. People of the music group result from Tuareg and Wodaabe, nomadic groupings whose traditions rests mainly in tending livestock in southern Sahara. The music group’s employees varies, numbering generally between six and 10, and it has included Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla, Bammo Agonla, Bagui Bouga, Ghalitane Khamidoune, Zaid Ag Abdoul Jamil and Mamane Tankari. Tuareg people chiefly play string musical instruments, traditionally a kind of violin but latterly also acoustic and guitar, and percussion. Because the addition of your guitar, the proper execution of music performed with the Tuareg continues to be called ‘ichumar’. The Wodaabe sing within their very own vocabulary, Fulfulde, and in the vocabulary from the Tuareg, Tamasheck, and make use of calabasse drums. In addition they dance within a gradual, rhythmic way. Since their initial appearance in a desert music celebration in Timbuktu, Mali, Etran Finatawa provides performed in Erfoud, Morocco, and toured European countries where they will have provided concerts in Germany, holland, Switzerland (showing up at the Globe Music Celebration), Eire (Globe Cultures Celebration), and Britain (WOMAD). An Apr 2008 tour of the united states included schedules in California, Illinois, Louisiana and NY. Members from the band have got included Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla, Bammo Agnola, Bagui Bouga, Ghalitane Khamidoune, Zaid Ag Abdoul Jamil and Mamane Tankari.