Tinariwen hosted a guest show on 11 July 2019. Tinariwen has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 18 May 2014. Tinariwen's music has been featured on 23 episodes.

Tinariwen are a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band's fifth album Tassili, released in 2011, won the Award for Best World Music Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.

Formed in 1982, in strikingly unusual circumstances for a musical ensemble, Tinariwen blend ancient musical traditions with radical contemporary politics. Despite severe natural and man-made hardships, young Kel Tamashek exiles continued performing the traditional music of their Tuareg forebears…