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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Group Doueh (Boston Debut!)\, Khaira Arby and Her B
 and with special guest The Debo Horns\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.or
 g/event/detail/441314139/Group_Doueh_Boston_Debut_Khaira_Arby_and_Her_Band
 _with_special_guest_The_Debo_Horns\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-07-05\nEvent Da
 te End: 2011-07-05\n\nPresented by Bowery Boston and End of an Empire in a
 ssociation with Feeding Tube Records\, Weirdo Records and Uhuru Afrika.\nI
 f you think you've heard all the great electric guitar styles in the world
 \, think again. This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grin
 d your face to a bloody pulp. Group Doueh play raw and unfiltered Saharawi
  music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara. Dou
 eh (pronounced &ldquo\;Doo-way&rdquo\;) is their leader and a master of th
 e electric guitar. He's been performing since he was a child playing in ma
 ny groups before finally creating his own in the 1980's. Doueh says he's I
 nfluenced by western pop and rock music especially Jimi Hendrix and James 
 Brown. His sound is distorted\, loud and unhinged with an impressive displ
 ay of virtuosity and style only known in this part of the world. His wife 
 Halima and friend Bashiri are the two vocalists in the group. Saharawi son
 gs are from the sung poetry of the Hassania language. The music is based o
 n the same modal structure as Mauritanian music\, however\, Doueh's style 
 is a looser appropriation infused with a western guitar scope\, one that r
 elies\, in his words\, as much on Hendrix as it does traditional Sahrawi m
 usic. It also adds a playful pop element that rarely filters through in th
 is region.\nKhaira Arby: \nMalians love her. Kha&iuml\;ra Arby was born in
  the village of Abaradjou in the Sahara Desert north of Timbuktu. Khaira's
  parents came from different ethnic backgrounds\, mother Songhai and fathe
 r Berber. You can hear these cultures in her music\; she sings in several 
 languages. The instrumentation and rhythms are just as varied with electri
 c guitar and bass\, calabash\, ngoni\, traditional violin\, and percussion
  creating a complex mixture of sound and structure. Some people compare th
 e effect to the rhythms of the camel caravans crossing the Sahara\, others
  to the cosmopolitan city of Timbuktu. To no one's surprise\, Kha&iuml\;ra
  won her first singing contest while just a schoolgirl and was chosen to r
 epresent Mali internationally. Not being from a musical family\, her fathe
 r discouraged her continuing her career and she married. But after 10 year
 s of marriage Khaira divorced and returned to Timbuktu and her musical int
 erests. By her mid twenties\, Kha&iuml\;ra had made her first recording wi
 th the Orchestre Regional de Tombouctou and after a short time was invited
  to sing with the famous Orchestre Badema in Bamako\, the nation's capitol
 . She continued to earn her stripes beside such Malian stars as her cousin
 \, Ali Farka Tour&eacute\; and the widely influential Fissa Ma&iuml\;ga. S
 ince 1990 Kha&iuml\;ra has focused all her energies on her music. With thr
 ee albums in her own name and a fourth recently released in August 2010 sh
 e is the Voice of Mali's North. Kha&iuml\;ra sings in many desert traditio
 ns and her music takes the listener on an audio journey across the essence
  of Mali and Tombouctou\, a meeting of compass points\, religions\, cultur
 es\, past and present. She sings praise songs\, blues songs\, religious so
 ngs\, songs about love\, war and peace\, family and the lives of women. Sh
 e expresses her pride in the history and struggles of her desert homeland 
 and its people. Kha&iuml\;ra still lives in Timbuktu with her family. She 
 performs at concerts and festivals throughout Mali. She has appeared at th
 e mythic Festival in the Desert annually since its beginning in 2001 and a
 t several editions of the Festival on the Niger River in Segou. In 2006 sh
 e was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mali. In August 2010\, Kha&
 iuml\;ra and her band toured the United States and Canada performing to ra
 ve reviews at venues ranging from small Harlem nightclubs to the Kennedy C
 enter in Washington DC. This tour coincided with the international release
  of her latest album\, Timbuktu Tarab\, which has been critically hailed a
 s one of the best new albums of 2010.\n\nStart time: Doors: 8:00pm
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SUMMARY:Group Doueh (Boston Debut!)\, Khaira Arby and Her Band with special
  guest The Debo Horns
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