“The midnight Mdou Moctar set at the shrine was something to behold. I’ve seen them before, but not like this! The crowd was ecstatic and it turned into a big mosh pit with people crowd surfing and all. When kids started getting shoved onto the front of the stage, I thought the band might take it down a notch, but they just kept taking the energy up, up, up. He even stepped up to the front and let them worship his guitar.”