Tuareg rock sensation Mdou Moctar announced his 2022 international tour dates today and shared a video of a live performance with his band on the banks of the Niger River. The tour will begin on February 27 at The Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina and end May 1 at De Post in Oostende, Belgium, with 42 more stops along the way. The North American portion of his tour will be in support of Parquet Courts, but he'll headline his European dates. He is also slated to perform at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 25.
The autodidact desert blues guitar god, who grew up in a strict Muslim household where music was forbidden and built his first instrument in secret from from wood and bicycle brake cables, dropped his fifth studio album, Afrique Victime, on Matador in May. In September, he released a short documentary on the making of that record.
In the newly released "Live at the River Niger" video, Moctar and his band play a generator-powered set of four tracks from Afrique Victime, sitting cross-legged on a blanket as the sun rises behind them. Watch it above and view Moctar's newly announced tour dates below.
Mdou Moctar 2022 Tour Dates
2/27 - The Orange Peel - Asheville NC %
2/28 - Georgia Theatre - Atlanta GA %
3/2 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta GA %
3/3 - Saturn - Birmingham AL %
3/4 - Cannery Ballroom - Nashville TN %
3/5 - The Pageant - St. Louis MO %
3/7 - Liberty Hall - Lawrence KS %
3/8 - The Waiting Room - Omaha NE %
3/10 - First Avenue - Minneapolis MN %
3/11 - Turner Hall Ballroom - Milwaukee WI %
3/12 - The Riviera Theatre - Chicago IL %
3/13- MOCAD - Detroit MI %
3/15 - Mr. Smalls Theatre - Millvale PA %
3/16 - Agora Theatre - Cleveland OH %
3/17 - Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Toronto ON %
3/18 - Corona Theatre - Montreal QC %
4/1 - Het Bos - Antwerpen, BE
4/2 - AB-club - Brussels, BE
4/3 - Bumann - Köln DE
4/4 Paradiso - Amsterdam NL
4/5 - Effenaar - Eindhoven, NL
4/6 - Komedia - Brighton, UK
4/7 - Hare & Hounds - Birmingham, UK
4/8 - The Sugar Club - Dublin, IE
4/9 - Ulster Sports Club - Belfast, UK
4/10 - Drygate - Glasgow, UK
4/11 - The Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK
4/12 - YES - Manchester, UK
4/14 - EartH Theatre - London, UK
4/15 - La cave aux Poètes - Roubaix/Lille, FR
4/16 - Le Hasard Ludique - Paris, FR
4/17 - Doornroosje - Nijmegen, NL
4/18 - Molotow - Hamburg, DE
4/19 - Alice - Copenhagen, DK
4/20 - Nefertiti - Gothenburg, SE
4/21 - Blaa - Oslo, NO
4/22 - Fasching -Stockholm, SE
4/23 - Plan B - Malmö, SE
4/24 - Frannz Club - Berlin, DE
4/25 - UT Connewitz - Leipzig, DE
4/26 - Meetfactory - Prague, CZ
4/27 - Kapu - Linz, AU
4/28 - Rote Fabrik - Zurich, CH
5/1 - De Post - Oostende, BE
Shows marked % are in support of Parquet Courts.
