Noura Mint Seymali - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

Noura Mint Seymali performed on the opening night of Le Guess Who? 2024 as part of the program curated by Arooj Aftab. You can now listen to, and relive, the full performance below. 

Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally adored Mauritanian musical star, born into a prominent line of Moorish griot; West African praise singers, poets and musicians. Her father is legendary musician Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, and she grew up singing alongside step-mother Dimi Mint Abba - a legend in her own right

Seymali, trained in the ardine (a harp reserved only for women), went on to make music with her husband Jeich Ould Chighaly, a master of the stringed tidinit.

Le Guess Who? Recordings

The publication of this recording is part of Le Guess Who?’s ongoing expansion of the festival’s recordings archive, with 100+ recordings from past editions now freely available online.

This archive contains audio and/or video recordings of performances by Kamilya Jubran, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Tom Skinner, Selda Bağcan, clipping., Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Microphones, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lightning Bolt, Neneh Cherry, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and many more. 

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal on Thursday, 7 November 2024.

Audio recording by Lucas Broer; mix by Marc Broer

Photography by Maarten Mooijman