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Documentary ‘Vieux de Niafunké’ Brings the Music of Mali’s Vieux Farka Touré to the Screen

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Haley Bosselman editorAfrican multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré had become a legend by the time he died in 2006. His music was used in a song for “Black Panther,” and he was thought of as a pioneer of African desert blues.Touré’s son Vieux Farka Touré has also made waves around the world with his genre-crossing music.

That music is celebrated in the new documentary “Vieux de Niafunké,” which includes an appearance by one of his enthusiastic fans, Matthew McConaughey.“[McConaughey] was very excited to share his thought and his stories about Ali, and then speak a little bit about the musical traditions being handed down to Ali’s son, Vieux, and then a little bit about the culture of Mali,” says the doc’s director, Ian Campbell.

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