Pencil This In: Terakaft At Chicago Cultural Center

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 11, 2013 5:20PM

Music

Fans of the Desert blues of Tinariwen should make a beeline to the Chicago Cultural Center March 12 for Terakaft. Like Tinariwen, Terakaft (Tamasheq for "caravan") mines that same hypnotic, guitar-focused trancelike music that brings the North African desert to your speakers. The 12-year-old band is only now starting to find an audience outside of Africa and are on their first U.S. tour. Tomorrow's 6:30 p.m. concert marks their Chicago debut. (78 E. Washington; Preston Bradley Hall; free.)

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