Stay-Home World Tour Stop #5: Tinariwen's Extra Show

By Alexander Hough in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 25, 2010 7:20PM

With our last stop on our week-long Stay-Home World Tour, we come almost full circle geographically with Tinariwen's performances this weekend at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Tinariwen's members are Tuareg, a Saharan culture which is historically nomadic but whose lives were uprooted during the region's colonization in the late 1800s and the subsequent independence in the 1960s, so the musicians have bounced between points all over north and west Africa, forming up in Algeria and somewhat more officially in a military training camp near Tripoli, Libya.

Victoria has already given you the info on Tinariwen and their Saturday concerts, but it's come down the pike that they've added a third show this Sunday.

Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., and Sunday at 7:00 p.m., Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave., $24-$28

Check out the origin locales of all our Stay-Home World Tour thus far after the jump...

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