What large Berber confederation, principally inhabiting the Sahara desert, also has an annual festival showcasing their traditional music?
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Festival au Désert The Festival au désert ("Festival in the Desert") is an annual concert in Mali, showcasing traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world. The first Festival took place in Tin Essako in 2001 and then it moved in 2002 to Tessalit in the Kidal region (North-Eastern Mali). From 2003 until 2009 the festival was held in Essakane, 65km from Timbuktu, but because of security issues, from 2010 the festival was held on the outskirts of Timbuktu.
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Tuareg people The Tuareg people ( ; also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym "Kel Tamasheq", "Kel Tagelmust") are a large Berber ethnic confederation. They principally inhabit the Sahara desert, in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Traditionally nomadic pastoralists, small groups of Tuareg are also found in northern Nigeria.
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Music of Nigeria The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of Folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide. Styles of folk music are related to the multitudes of ethnic groups in the country, each with their own techniques, instruments, and songs. Little is known about the country's music history prior to European contact, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments. The largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout Africa is almost always functional; in other words, it is performed to mark a ritual such as a wedding or funeral and not to achieve artistic goals. Although some Nigerians, especially children and the elderly, play instruments for their own amusement, solo performance is otherwise rare. Music is closely linked to agriculture, and there are restrictions on, for example, which instruments can be played during different parts of the growing season.
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Berbers Berbers (Berber: "Mazices" / "Imaziɣen" / "Imazighen" singular: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ "Amaziɣ" / "Amazigh") are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to North Africa. They are distributed in an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River. Historically, they spoke Berber languages, which together form the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Since the Muslim conquest of North Africa in the seventh century, a large number of Berbers inhabiting the Maghreb (Tamazgha) have acquired different degrees of knowledge of varieties of the languages of North Africa. After the colonization of North Africa by France, "the French government succeeded in integrating the French language in Algeria by making French the official national language and requiring all education to take place in French." Foreign languages, mainly French and to some degree Spanish, inherited from former European colonial powers, are used by most educated Berbers in Algeria and Morocco in some formal contexts, such as higher education or business.
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Laayoune Laayoune (Maghrebi Arabic: لعيون "Al-ʿAyyūn/El-Aiun", ""Laʕyūn" "; Spanish: 'El Aaiún' ; French: "Laâyoune" ; Berber: ⵍⵄⵢⵓⵏ, "Leɛyun"; Literary Arabic: العيون "al-ʿuyūn ", literally "The Springs") is the largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara currently administered by Morocco. The modern city is thought to have been founded by the Spanish colonizer in 1938. In 1940, Spain designated it as the capital of the Spanish Sahara. Laâyoune (El-Aaiún) is the capital of the "Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra" region administered by Morocco under the supervision of the UN peace-keeping mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
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Chenouas The Chenouis (in Berber "Ichenwiyen") are a Berber population inhabiting Algeria. They are concentrated in the west-central mountains, and number over 750,000 people.
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World Festival of Black Arts The World Festival of Black Arts (French: ), also known as FESMAN, is a month-long culture and arts festival that takes place in Africa. The festival features poetry, sculpture, painting, music, cinema, theatre, fashion, architecture, design and dance from artists and performers from around the African Diaspora.
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Cairo Congress of Arab Music The Congrès du Caire (Congress of Arab Music; Arabic: مؤتمر الموسيقى العربية الأول‎ ‎ ; "Mu'tamar al'mūsiqā al-'arabiyya") was a large international symposium and festival that was convened by King Fuad I in Cairo from March 14 to April 3, 1932. It was suggested to Fuad by baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger, and was intended as the first large-scale forum to present, discuss, document and record the many musical traditions of the Arabic world from North Africa and the Middle East (including Turkey).
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Etran Finatawa Etran Finatawa is a Niger-based band, formed in 2004 during the Festival au Désert near Timbuktu, Mali. The music of Etran Finatawa blends the traditional music of the Wodaabe and Tuareg people with western instruments such as the electric guitar.
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Aït Oussa The Aït Oussa, is a large Sahrawi tribe in Western Sahara, in what is today southern Morocco and northern Western Sahara.
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Cape Town International Jazz Festival The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cape Town, South Africa. The first one was held in 2000 to 2005 and is recognised as the fourth largest jazz festival in the world and the largest jazz festival on the African continent. The festival used to be called the Cape Town North Sea Jazz Festival due to its association with the North Sea Festival in the Netherlands.
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Tamazgha Tamazgha (Berber: , Tifinagh: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵗⴰ or ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵖⴰ) is a Berber language toponym denoting the Greater Maghreb, the lands traditionally inhabited by Berbers (Mazice/Amazigh). The region encompasses the geographical area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River, a large swathe of territory spanning Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Egypt and the Canary Islands.
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Basseri The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری‎ ‎ ) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars Province in Iran. They have formerly been part of the so-called Khamseh confederation which includes Persian- Turkic- and Arabic-speaking tribes. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that deals with the formal officers of the tribe, villagers, and other strangers. The Basseri economy stems mainly from sheep and goats.
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El Azara El Azara (Arabic: العزارة‎ ‎ ) is the period of the year extending, according to the Berber calendar, from 3 to 13 February and known by a climate sometimes hot, sometimes cold.
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Fête du Vodoun Traditional Day or Fête du Vodoun (literally Vodoun Festival, also known as Traditional Religions Day) is a public holiday in Benin that celebrates the nation's history surrounding the West African religion of Vodoun. The celebration is held annually on January 10 throughout the country but most notably in the city of Ouidah. Beginning with the slaughter of a goat in honor of the spirits, the festival is filled with singing, dancing and the imbibing of liquor, especially gin. Vodoun was officially declared a religion in Benin in 1996 and the festival has attracted thousands of devotees and tourists to Ouidah to participate in the festivities ever since.
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Rajasthan International Folk Festival Rajasthan International Folk Festival (or Jodhpur RIFF or Jodhpur folk festival) is an annual music and art festival organized to promote traditional folk music and arts held at Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
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History of Morocco The history of Morocco spans several millennia, succeeding the prehistoric cultures of Jebel Irhoud and Taforalt. It dates from the establishment of Mauretania and other ancient Berber kingdoms, to the formation of the Almoravid dynasty, Idrisid dynasty and other Islamic polities, through to the colonial and independence periods.
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Music of North Africa North Africa has contributed to popular music, especially Egyptian classical and el Gil, Algerian raï and chaabi ( internationally-known tubes such as " Ya Rayah "-Dahman El Harrachi or Aicha- Cheb Khaled) . The broad region is sometimes called the Maghreb (excluding Egypt), and the term Maghrebian music is in use. For a variety of reasons Libya does not have as extensive a popular tradition as its neighbors. Folk music, however, abounds, despite frequent condemnation and suppression from governments, and exists in multiple forms across the region—the Berbers, Sephardic Jews, Tuaregs and Nubians, for example, retain musical traditions with ancient roots.
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Sahrawi Sahrawi or Sahraoui, is an Arabic term meaning from the Sahara, or more specifically the Western Sahara (also meaning from the desert generally), may refer to:
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Ahwash Ahwash (also spelled ahwach or ahouach) is a style of collective performance from southern Morocco. The ahwash is performed as a celebration of the community.
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Garamantes The Garamantes (possibly from the Berber "igherman" / "iɣerman", meaning: "cities" in modern Berber; or possibly from "igerramen" meaning "saints, holy/sacred people" in modern Berber) were a Berber tribe who developed an advanced civilization in ancient southwestern Libya. They used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded prosperous Berber kingdoms or city-states in the Fezzan area of Libya, in the Sahara desert. They were a local power between 500 BC and 700 AD.
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Tizi N'Berber Tizi N'Berber is a town in northern Algeria.