To celebrate Vieux Farka Toure’s North American Summer Tour and the release of his Live Album, Relix and Six Degrees Records will be giving away a Godin guitar (the same model Vieux Farka Toure plays)! Enter here at Relix.com

Vieux Farka Touré and BLK JKS at Rio Loco Festival, France

With his 2010 World Cup performance before a billion people —yes, you heard that right—in Johannesburg, South Africa, Vieux Farka Touré has become one of the most celebrated African guitarists in history.

With international acclaim still pouring in from his second full-length, Fondo—one of iTunes best World Music albums of 2009, and a staple on critics’ year-end pick lists as chosen by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Village Voice and the BBC among many others—Vieux has not only distinguished himself from his famous bluesman father, Malian legend Ali Farka Touré, but begun to transcend thelimitations of the world music genre itself.

The release of the concert album VFT Live (Digital: 6/8/10, Physical: 6/29/10) affirms that Mali’s young lion has become a legend in his own right, emerging at a crucial point in history, just as the Western world is finally beginning to take notice of West African acts like Amadou & Miriam and Omou Sangare. Not only does VFT Live capture the excitement of Vieux’s much- anticipated World Cup performance, but it confirms what tens of thousands of music fans around the world already know: VFT’s live show is championship-caliber.

Click to watch the Hendrix of the Sahara perform at the Opening Ceremony of the World Cup.  Other performances included Shakira, K’NAAN, Amadou and Mariam, among many other musical luminaries.