In a story too far-fetched for a Hollywood script, Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar survived life on the run as a desert fugitive, only to emerge four years later as a ...

Omar “Bombino” Moctar straddles two worlds. A Tuareg, the desert people of the Sahara, Bombino, as he is known, adheres to the centuries-old musical traditions of his people, weaving tales of struggle ...

Two years ago in MacArthur Park during its Levitt Pavilion summer concert series, Tuareg guitarist Omaro “Bombino” Moctar and his four-piece band performed a free concert for a ragtag mix of Angelenos ...

Dedicated young adults, parents, grandparents and everyone in between waited in anticipation Wednesday night to watch internationally-acclaimed musician, Bombino, perform live at the Wexner Center for ...

There is almost no possible way that someone could have walked away from Tuareg musician Bombino’s show at the Cedar Cultural Center (the first in the African Summer series) without being completely ...

Bombino, the desert bluesman who helped popularize the eclectic, electric sound of the Sahara, showed off his guitar genius Saturday night in the Finger Lakes. The soft-spoken but strong-strumming ...

World Music Institute will present Bombino, with Kaethe Hostetter's Impressions of Ethiopia & dj.henri at Brooklyn Bowl,Thursday, September 21. Omara "Bombino" Moctar is one of the brightest stars of ...

When the Tuareg people of northern Niger once again decided to take up arms in the face of government neglect and repression in 2007, Omara “Bombino” Moctar joined the fight with his guitar. Like the ...

I've been sitting with a CD for a couple of weeks now: listening to it, thinking about it, and sort of letting it percolate inside of me. It's not often I have the luxury of doing this with a ...

Whenever Bombino releases a new record, it tops the charts for world music. Over the past five years, the Tuareg singer and guitarist from Niger, has become one of the most recognized artists from ...

A small white car, branded with the words "Groupe Bambino" and a crudely drawn electric guitar, is revving its wheels deeper and deeper into the soft sand of a side alley somewhere on the ragged ...