Tartit

Tartit is one of the leading bands on the Tuareg music scene, and one of the few groups composed mainly of women. The band’s members come from the Timbuktu region of Mali but met in exile in a refugee camp in Mauritania, where their music became a way to survive the economic, social and political strife in the region.

The band plays hypnotic desert blues, partly in the vein of Ali Farka Touré, but with more focus on the vocal fabric. The female singers play the traditional single-stringed instruments imzad and tende, the drum made of goatskin stretched over an ordinary mortar. They are accompanied by the male musicians on the West African lute ngoni and electric guitar.

In 1995, Tartit gave its first concert in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and then played at the Festival of Women’s Voices in Liege, Belgium. The group has toured Europe and North America. They have performed with Ali Farka Touré and Afel Bocoum, with Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Oumou Sangaré and Baba Salah. They have also collaborated with Irish singer Susan McKeown.

At Fasching, five of the group’s singers, accompanied by two guitarists, will perform music from their latest album, Amankor/The Exile, alongside other more traditional songs from the band’s rich repertoire.

Tickets: Nortic

Place: Fasching, Kungsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: 150 – 275 SEK
Date: 14.06.2024
Time: 20:00

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