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ISSAMBA SHOWCASE- Featuring Tamikrest

Sat, May 27

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ISSAMBA SHOWCASE: Featuring Tamikrest

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ISSAMBA SHOWCASE- Featuring Tamikrest
ISSAMBA SHOWCASE- Featuring Tamikrest

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May 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM

Location is TBD

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About the Event

TAMIKREST 

AfriCa Fest 2023

Hermann's Upstairs

May 27 @ 8 pm - Doors @ 7:30 ***NO minors***

Ticket: Adv.: $35 + fees

Doors: $40 

About Tamikrest

Tamikrest in Tamasheq language means junction, connection, knot, coalition. The group members come from different horizons (Mali, Niger, Algeria and France). Wanting to assume fully their Touareg identity, they found in the rebel music Ishumar the means to express it. “A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us.”

The story begins at Kidal, capital of the eighth Region of Mali while making tea of course. Pino, Cheikh, and Mossa had just finished a guitar workshop with Juhan Ecaré (guitarist for Meiway) when they decided to form a group with only two old ‘homemade’ guitars. And they got to work… “Even though we are young, guitars still have six cords!”

After one year and a half of hard work, the group is complete and their repertory has grown to contain more than twenty-five original compositions. Though their music takes root in Ishumar Rock or Tuareg Blues, it borrows from various international influences as well as from neighbouring cultures.

Through the message of their songs, Tamikrest wants to make Tamasheq poetry and culture accessible to inhabitants of a world larger than the immensity of the Saharian desert. https://www.tamikrest.net/ 

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