- 20:30 Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla - Live
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla - keyboards / leader
Mohamed Lemine Cheikh Sidi El Moctar - percussion
What’s that sweet noise blaring out of Nouakchott’s taxi cabs and cassette shops?
It is Mauritania’s madman of the keyboard, Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla. Local superstar and probably most successful performer of the popular style WZN (literally: instrumental music).
After the overwhelming success of his debut European tour in April 2019, where the larger-than-life personality and dedicated gun nut created havoc everywhere he played, shredding the keyboard with his elbows and head, he will be finally back after 5 years of waiting - ready to take the big festival stages or to rock the shack in your backyard! Expect a wild show to watch out for, or like the good people of Sahelsounds put it: “Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla transports Mauritanian classical music into technological futures, like a drug-free baroque rave under the open air of the Sahara.”