Spotlight: Mdou Moctar — live event
The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Mdou Moctar to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening discussing their latest release, Tears of Injustice, their career, creative process, and more, with a special performance to follow. Mdou Moctar is a man: An incendiary Nigerien guitarist and songwriter. It is also a band. Alongside Moctar, the group consists of rhythm guitarist Ahmoudou Madassane, drummer Souleymane Ibrahim, and American bassist and producer Mikey Coltun. Their most recent record, Tears of Injustice, is the acoustic version of last year’s critically-adored breakout Funeral for Justice – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. Tears owes its existence to a national catastrophe. In July of 2023, Mdou Moctar was on tour in the United States when the president of Niger was deposed in a coup. Moctar, Madassane, and Ibrahim were briefly unable to return home to their families. They decided to seize the opportunity to record a companion t
Starts: 2025-07-22T19:30:00Z
Ends: 2025-07-22T21:30:00Z
Where: 800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States
Price: $0.0