Festival in the Desert - Featuring Traditional Tuareg culture & Samba Touré

The Festival in the Desert
A tribute site to the Festival Au Desert by Joe Conte

The Festival Au Desert is held every year in the North of Mali, usually in Essakane, two hours from Timbuktu; sometimes directly at Timbuktu. It is organized by AITMA and EFES Associations together with Essakane Production. This festival seeks its origin in the big traditional Touareg festivities, as Takoubelt in Kidal and Temakannit in Timbuktu, which represented for a long time a place for decision making and exchange of information among the different communities. At the beginning, there were songs and touareg dances, poetries, camel rides and games

[GATLeadershipAcademy]

I am from Ethiopia and I fall in love with Mali people and their traditional culture.

[Child_of_Amun]

My beautiful people, seeing this makes me really miss home 🙏🏿😭

[unefleur_]

J’ai toujours été fasciné par la culture touaregs, la vie de nomade etc. Je rêve d’en rencontrer ! J’espère en voir un jour. Paix&Amour

[neophytewraith]

This was lovely to see. Starting at 1:16 we see these four people before the musicians. The fluidity and the naturalness of its gestures, are really pleasant to see. And this illuminates the heart. We can literally feel the warmth of these Tuareg people. Thank you for sharing. It is that these districs are currently unsafe and traveling there is not recommended. it is even advised against. And that pains me. I myself would really love to go there and visit a festival like this. I feel very attracted to these people. .

[anthonywest]

TUAREG PEOPLE ARE MAJESTIC AND BEAUTIFUL.

[MariaPereira-qcpx]

I hope the music brings understanding and peace .I love the music Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤❤❤

[From_NewYork_and_Beyond]

Hopefully we will live long enough to see this festival back. 🤞🤞🤞

[TheRadiah]

I took a African Ancestry DNA test which states I am 100% Mali from the Taureg tribe in Northern Mali! I want to visit Northern Mali one day to meet the people from my ancestral tribe. The more I research the Taureg tribe in Mali I find out they are strong warriors, rebels, survivors who are willing to fight for their land, independence and freedom. I inherited my love for singing; music and song writing from my ancestral tribe! I blessed to have ancestral relations to the Taureg People! I am proud of the Taureg People!

[KushaDwipa]

Thanks for keeping your festival alive.

[mmmabo]

My tribe used to gather here every spring but now we all scattered around the globe😪😪 keep tuareq culture alive 💪🏻💪🏻

[mariamaalihassane]

Il fait reconnaître qu'il y'a un mélange au niveau musical et culturel avec les songhoï surtt du mali....

[nordafricanordafrica]

azul azul imaziren toureg azul flaoun imaziren souss massa ait baha sud maroc

[soulheart]

Salamalekom, your music is beautiful 😍 I remember the past of North Africa. My family is from Morroco. Our past about all North Africa. My origin is maybe mauritania, mali before in the past ?

[MalamIbnMalam]

This is a mix of Songhai and Touareg (Tamasheq) culture. The ones playing the Tehardant are Songhai. They are Super Onze which is a Songhai (Sonrai) group.

[jayharris]

Wow! These people turning up in the desert.

[ولدالصحراء-لض]

اسكي بالتوارق تحية طيبة من عند اخوكم من اهل السمارة

[tmarcel]

I keep stumbling on music that are very familiar to me. This one sounds particularly an Ethiopian song entitled, "etitu beredegn"

[idiohikhuare]

Do you know Fox bros? This video blessed my life Sir 👌🏾. “I miss Dad” 😉🐸

[gxwvgwh]

الطوارق الأسود. القويه أحفاد المرابطين. واحفاد يوسف بن تاشفين

[strategiesetdeveloppement]

Un peuple digne et fier mais Sarkozy a foutu  la merde dans la région et c' est triste.