Tartit – Stopover Concerts

A musical journey to the end of the world with artists hailing from distant lands. Originally from the Timbuktu region, Tartit fervently perpetuates the musical tradition of the nomad Kel Tamasheq people. Founded in exile in Mauritanian and Burkinabé refugee camps during the Tuareg rebellion of 1990-1996, the group was born of an urgency: to preserve and transmit a culture and oral music tradition threatened with disappearance. Its name, meaning union in the Tamasheq language, embodies this desire to gather and to resist. Since then, having become both guardian and ambassador of a fragile heritage, Tartit tours stages around the world, bearing the realities and hopes of an entire people caught between nostalgia for a peaceful desert of yesteryear and the challenges of the 21st century.