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This Pageant, which can full its first quarter century this yr, will invite musicians from the 4 corners of the world to carry out alongside the Maâlems Gnaoua. World-renowned artists and rising stars of the music scene come collectively on this 2024 classic.
This version marked by an incredible variety of genres, starting from Afrobeat to Aïta by way of Jazz, conventional Arabic music, Soul and even Punk Rock, will see the participation of greater than 400 artists who will carry out throughout of 53 concert events.
For 3 days, Essaouira will likely be remodeled right into a cultural crossroads the place the rhythms of the Gnaoua and sounds from world wide combine. This musical fusion, which provides rise to distinctive performances, transcends limitations and cultural borders, making the values of peace, communion and tolerance reign.
For this yr, the programming goals to be avant-garde, daring, harmonious and inclusive. This can be a great invitation to dwell a novel expertise, which solely the Gnaoua and World Music Pageant can present.
25 years of ardour and dedication
When the Gnaoua Pageant was born in Essaouira in June 1998, nobody anticipated such an inventive and human surge which blew a brand new wind on the previous Mogador.
Guided by the necessity to safeguard an ancestral heritage threatened with disappearance, the Pageant has revolutionized the Moroccan cultural panorama.
Constructing on its quarter-century of longevity, this version will mark the beginning of a brand new chapter resolutely turned in the direction of the long run and carrying structuring and sustainable initiatives.
Along with concert events and cultural conferences, this yr the Pageant will launch two new initiatives with nice ambitions, specifically a coaching program in partnership with one of the prestigious musical establishments on the planet, Berklee School of Music, Boston, Massachusetts and the creation of a chair devoted to Gnaoua tradition in partnership with the “Middle for African Research” of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic College of Benguerir.
Fusion of music and cultures
Within the mapping of worldwide musical occasions, the Gnaoua and World Music Pageant of Essaouira stands out for its idea of unique fusions.
Among the many 400 artists who will carry out throughout this twenty fifth version, the Pageant will current 34 Gnaoua maâlems and 53 concert events in complete, together with 6 fusion concert events.
Amongst these fusions, the opening live performance guarantees an explosion of rhythms mixing the genres Gnaoua, Brazilian Batucada, Spanish Flamenco and Zaouli from Ivory Coast to place their similarities into perspective. Maâlem Hassan Boussou (Casablanca) and Maâlem Mly Taieb Dehbi (Marrakech) with the Dumanlé firm (Ivory Coast), Nino de Los Reyes (Spain) and Ilê Aiyê (Brazil) promise a extremely festive opening!
One other fusion to not be missed underneath any circumstances is the one which can deliver collectively Mâalem Hamid El Kasri with the group Bokanté (United States, Canada) based by guitarist Michael League (Snarky Pet), multi-nominee on the Grammy Awards, “a charming expertise and unforgettable” in accordance with the New York Instances.
The strongest moments
This pioneering, avant-garde and dedicated pageant has all the time sought to take the general public on a journey via world music, between established artists and rising stars.
This yr, the general public could have the pleasure of seeing, amongst others, the polyglot Palestinian rapper Saint Levant (actual title Marwan Abdelhamid) in addition to the highly effective duo “Aita mon amour”, made up of the Moroccan singer Widad Mjama and the Tunisian musician Khalil Epi, who brilliantly revisits this common conventional Moroccan style to mission it into the fashionable period.
Pageant-goers may also have the ability to take heed to one of the lovely voices of flamenco, the Spanish singer of Equatorial Guinean origin Buika, acclaimed by the worldwide press for her distinctive voice.
The live performance by legendary American jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker, 7 instances Grammy Award winner, may also be one of many highlights of this new classic.
eleventh version of the Human Rights Discussion board
Alongside the concert events, the eleventh version of the Human Rights Discussion board of the Gnaoua and World Music Pageant will likely be held, organized in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Neighborhood Overseas (CCME) across the present theme “Morocco, Spain , Portugal: a historical past with a future”.
A couple of years earlier than the historic occasion of the joint group of the 2030 World Cup, this version will discover the richness and complexity of the relations which unite Morocco, Spain and Portugal.
Bringing collectively round twenty numerous personalities, the Discussion board will tackle, over two mornings, topics linked to frequent historical past, the place and position of diasporas, mobility and the influence of the 2030 World Cup on neighborhood points.
In 10 editions, the Human Rights Discussion board has welcomed greater than 150 main personalities (anthropologists, artists, writers, historians, ministers, politicians, philosophers, researchers, diplomats, and so forth.) from 25 nations and 4 continents (Africa, America, Asia and Europe).
Over time, the Gnaoua Pageant in Essaouira has established itself as a vital crossroads and a novel musical laboratory on the planet due to programming that favors variety and audacity.
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