Algiers, Jan 3, 2019
Algerian Authority has cancelled all the music tour dates and concerts, that was scheduled in many Algerian cities this month by Tinariwen band.
The concert was to be held in Constantine on Thursday Jan 3, Algiers, Jan 5 and Oran in west of Algeria on January 7, 2019.
The National Culture and Information office (ONCI) has released a statement on Facebook, saying that the event was cancelled due to some technical problems related to the group.
Tinariwen is a Grammy Award-winning group of Amazigh-Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed in 1979 in Tamanrasset, Algeria, During the 1990s the group returned to Mali, where its members originate, and in the early 2000s gained wider recognition outside of the Sahara desert region.
