Local festival organizers behind Mill Valley Music Festival, Noise Pop Industries and The Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce, are excited to reveal the daily performance lineup as the independently-owned-and-operated weekend event returns May 10-11, bringing headliners Gary Clark Jr. and Nile Rodgers & Chic to Northern California alongside a handful of incredible music acts.

Hometown festival organizers from Noise Pop Industries and the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce are proud to announce the full music lineup for their independently-owned Mill Valley Music Festival, which returns to Northern California for a two-day outdoor celebration of music, arts and community on May 10-11, 2025 that will be headlined by none other than Gary Clark Jr. and Nile Rodgers & Chic.

Often referred to as “The Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré was born in Niafunké, Mali in 1981. He is the son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka Touré, who died in 2006. Ali Farka Touré came from a historical tribe of soldiers, and defied his parents in becoming a musician. When Vieux was in his teens, he declared that he also wanted to be a musician. His father disapproved due to the pressures he had experienced being a musician. Rather, he wanted Vieux to become a soldier.

Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré have released their highly-anticipated collaborative album Ali honoring Vieux’s late father, the great Ali Farka Touré, on Dead Oceans in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. Together, says BBC, “they've concocted a striking and stylish tribute album that honours Ali's music while spinning it off in unexpected new directions.”

This Friday Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré will release their highly-anticipated collaborative album Ali honoring Vieux’s late father, the great Ali Farka Touré, on Dead Oceans in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. Together, BBC says, “they've concocted a striking and stylish tribute album that honours Ali's music while spinning it off in unexpected new directions.”

Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré share “Tongo Barra” today, a new preview from their collaborative album Ali honoring Vieux’s late father, the great Ali Farka  Touré, out September 23rd on Dead Oceans in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. “Tongo Barra'' is an engrossing, nearly six-minute cornerstone of Ali sung in the Malian Songhai dialect, following the album’s beguiling lead single “Savanne.”

Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré today announce their collaborative album Ali honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré. Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate.

Celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré today releases his new album Les Racines via World Circuit Records. Touré is known as the “Hendrix of the Sahara” and the son of the late Desert Blues pioneer Ali Farka Touré; the album Les Racines is Touré’s debut album on the label and his first since 2017.