Mdou Moctar (Niger) + Cool Sounds

Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar fits the BMF bill perfectly, with an electric performance that boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, Hendrix inspired shredding, and poetic meditations on love, religion, women’s rights, inequality and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.

Mdou Moctar will be supported by the addictive dance/disco funk of Melbourne's Cool Sounds.