within Effetto Venezia 2016
in collaboration with Fabbrica Europa / Festival au Désert

On the evening of July 30, Tinariwen will be in concert in Livorno.
The Tuareg group will present its latest album, “Emmar“, masterpiece recorded in the California desert Joshua Tree with the collaboration of great artists like Josh Klinghoffer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Matt Sweeney (Chavez), Fats Kaplin, without forgetting the visionary Saul Williams.

Headliner in some of the most important international festivals including Eurockéennes de Belfort in France, Glastonbury in the UK and Coachella in the US, Tinariwen are worldwide known for their sound that mixes rock, blues and Tuareg traditional music. Their albums “Aman Iman” (2007), “Imidiwan” (2009) and “Tassili” (2012 – Grammy winner) have been praised by major music magazines from around the world and have attracted the attention of musicians like Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Thom Yorke, Brian Eno and Carlos Santana.

Ibrahim Ag Alhabib – guitar and vocals
Abdallah Ag Lamida – guitar and vocals
Mohammed Ag Itlale “the Japanese” – guitar and vocals
Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni “Catastrophe” – acoustic guitar, bass and vocals
Hassan Ag Touhami – guitar, percussion and vocals
Mina Walet Oumar – choir
Eyadou Ag Leche – bass, vocals, Calabash
Said Ag Ayad – percussion, choir
Elaga Ag Hamid – acoustic guitar, vocals

The concert will be opened by Dinamitri Jazz Folklore, one of the most original Italian jazz groups. Active for over 15 years, they are known for a very personal style that ranges – always in balance between research, innovative languages and diverse cultural traditions – from be-bop to New Orleans polyphony, from blues to African matrix sounds.
Dinamitri Jazz Folklore are protagonists of the music scene both live and with high artistic and cultural profile projects, among which many successful performances like “Folklore in Black” (2003) with clarinetist Tony Scott, “Congo Evidence (2006)” with poet Sadiq Bey and “Akendengue Suite” (2009) with Afro-American poet and activist Amiri Baraka.

Dimitri Grechi Espinoza – alto sax
Emanuele Parrini – violin
Paolo “Pee Wee” Durante – hammond, keyboards, live electronics
Gabrio Baldacci – electric guitar
Andrea Melani – drums
Simone Padovani – percussion
Piero Gesuè – vocals

Fabbrica Europa and Festival au Désert meet Effetto Venezia
The concert of Tinariwen and Dinamitri Jazz Folklore comes to Livorno thanks to a collaboration between Fabbrica Europa / Festival au Désert and Effetto Venezia 2016, a project promoting multiculturalism, one of the elements that characterize the city of Livorno.

The Festival au Désert in Florence is a multicultural music project that since 2010 has created a network for contemporary creation among Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe, starting from the collaboration between the Festival au Désert in Essakane (Mali) and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa.
Together with Malian festival (that since 2012 has become Caravane pour la Paix because of the war in Mali) was established a co-operation with the aim to develop a network for production and promotion of new creations. Since then the project has fostered a trip to and from Africa, a new Africa that knows how to innovate without denying its own history and has become in Florence a “meeting place between cultures”.