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The Moroccan artist Majid Bekkas, who directed this inventive patchwork, was accompanied by the gifted vibraphonist, David Patrois, the genius of spoken phrase rhythm, Minino Garay, the drummer, Mokhtar Samba in addition to the saxophonist, Axel Camil, to ship a top quality musical image.
Carried by the melodious voice of the gnaouis and the magic of this collaborative work, the general public of Essaouira instantly joined the musicians to rejoice musical residing collectively in all its splendor. Thus, Moroccans and foreigners have traveled from one model to a different, with disconcerting fluidity and ease.
Nonetheless on this spirit of fusion, the efficiency of the group “Amazones d’Afrique”, composed of singers from numerous African international locations, was extensively appreciated by festival-goers. With their panache and the ability of their voices, African divas have remodeled the Moulay Hassan stage into a spot of cultural mixing and musical alternate.
The closing of the Essaouira Gnaoua and World Music Pageant was additionally marked by different performances carried out by Hind Ennaira, the Maâlams Hassan Boussou and Hamid El Kasri, in addition to the Joubran trio, on the seaside stage, Dar Souiri , Bayt Dakira, Zaouia Issaoua and Bab Borj Marrakech.
The twenty fourth version of the Gnaoua and World Music Pageant, which came about from June 22 to 24, was a super alternative to current the musical richness of Morocco and the world, via distinctive performances combining modernity and custom.
Alongside concert events and different inventive actions, the tenth version of the Human Rights Discussion board was organized, with the central theme “Identities and belonging”, a topical topic in a world crossed by identification tensions and the refusal to otherness.
Artists, intellectuals, thinkers and political, associative and cultural actors from Morocco and elsewhere gathered in Essaouira to defend and reinvent a extra united world.
As well as, music workshops for younger and outdated had been additionally included within the Pageant’s menu with a view to permitting the invention and studying of Gnoua music, its devices, its rhythms and its historical past, along with the exhibition “The awakening of reminiscence” and a meeting-debate with the “Arbre à Palabres” artists.
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