Mdou Moctar Announces 2022 Tour, Releases Live at the Niger

Mdou Moctar has announced a lengthy run of 2022 tour dates. The trek kicks off on February 27 in North Carolina and brings the guitarist and his band around the world, making stops in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Sweden, and more. The world tour will wrap up with a set at Off Festival in Poland on August 6. Also slated to perform at select shows on the tour are Parquet Courts. Check out the full itinerary below.

Moctar has also released a special performance video today titled Live at the Niger River. The 20-minute clip captures the prolific Tuareg guitarist and his bandmates Ahmoudou Madassane, Souleymane Ibrahim, and Mikey Coltun playing four Afrique Victime songs—“Tala Tannam,” “Bissmilahi Atagh,” “Ya Habibti,” and “Chismiten”—next to a campfire in Niamey, Niger.

According to Coltun, who captured this footage as well as Mdou Moctar’s latest documentary, they used generators to power the remote set. “As we started playing ‘Tala Tannam’ the sun came up and the two-colored Saharan bird, the pied crow, the symbol for Mdou Moctar, flew above us,” he said in a statement. “Midway through the session we were greeted by a pack of goats coming towards us from who knows where. They stopped and listened for a bit. Totally spontaneous, as things usually are for the Mdou Moctar group. This session proved to be one of the most beautiful performances we’ve played together.”

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02-27 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
02-28 Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
03-02 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse %
03-03 Birmingham, AL – Saturn %
03-04 Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom %
03-05 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
03-07 Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall %
03-08 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room %  
03-10 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue %
03-11 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom %
03-12 Chicago, IL – The Riviera Theatre %
03-13 Detroit, MI – MOCAD %
03-15 Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre %
03-16 Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
03-17 Toronto, Ontario – Queen Elizabeth Theatre %
03-18 Montreal, Quebec – Corona Theatre %
04-01 Antwerp, Belgium – Het Bos
04-02 Brussels, Belgium – AB-club
04-03 Köln, Denmark – Bumann
04-04 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso 
04-05 Eindhoven, Netherlands – Effenaar
04-06 Brighton, England – Komedia
04-07 Birmingham, England – Hare & Hounds
04-08 Dublin, Ireland – The Sugar Club
04-09 Belfast, Ireland – Ulster Sports Club
04-10 Glasgow, Scotland – Drygate
04-11 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
04-12 Manchester, England – YES
04-14 London, England – Earth Theatre
04-15 Roubaix/Lille, France – La cave aux Poètes
04-16 Paris, France – Le Hasard Ludique
04-17 Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje
04-18 Hamburg, Denmark – Molotow
04-19 Copenhagen, Germany – Alice
04-20 Gothenburg, Sweden – Nefertiti
04-21 Oslo, Norway – Blaa
04-22 Stockholm, Sweden – Fasching
04-23 Malmö, Sweden – Plan B
04-24 Berlin, Germany – Frannz Club
04-25 Leipzig, Germany – UT Connewitz
04-26 Prague, Czech Republic – Meetfactory
04-27 Linz, Austria – Kapu
04-28 Zurich, Switzerland – Fabrik
04-29 Mannheim, Germany – Feuerwache
05-01 Oostende, Belgium – De Post
08-06 Mysłowice, Poland – Off Festival

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