Songhoy Blues
Positive and verified news from Songhoy Blues: concerts, releases, awards and projects.
The positive and verified news of Songhoy Blues: concerts, outputs, distinctions and projects — the writing of Festival TV only retains confirmed information, in a spirit of celebration.
2025-01-24 — "Heritage": the return to acoustic roots. For his fourth album, Songhoy Blues trolls electricity for kora, sokou and calabasse: "Heritage" revisits the blues desert in acoustic version and celebrates the richness of the traditions of northern Mali.
2026-10-09 — The blues desert is stopping in Rotterdam. The Bamako group was announced at the Podium Grounds in Rotterdam on 9 October 2026, at the heart of a European tour that brought the good word of the "Timbuktu punk" throughout the continent.
2020-10-23 — "Optimism", the album-manifest of hope. Recorded in Brooklyn with Matt Sweeney, "Optimism" has made the band sing for the first time in English on "Worry": don't worry, keep fighting — a resiliency hymn hailed by global critics.