Festival
18 Feb 2016
13 min read
All nomads! Born free and staying that way...
Every year, the month of March signals the return of Tuareg guitars and other world music to the stage of the International Nomads Festival. Since its creation in 2004, the event has become a landmark in Morocco and internationally. It is a precious meeting with lifestyles adapted to a fragile environment, with a culture and customs threatened with disappearance. It testifies to the attachment of an entire population to its roots, to its history, to a future that it wishes to be better for every child who has the chance to grow up in peace in this magnificent Draa valley at the gates of the Moroccan Sahara, but also everywhere else on the planet.
The Festival is our common image and a tool shared by all for the promotion of our heritage. Noureddine Bougrab, creator and director of the festivalWomen of M'Hamid el Ghizlane at the Festival, 2011 Edition © S.CoulaudEmblematic for its geographical location and its prestigious past, M'hamid el Ghizlane, the last oasis of the Draa Valley, is preparing to welcome festival-goers from very far away from 18 to 20 March to experience, among and with the inhabitants, three days of celebration with the scent of adventure.Choosing to experience a Moroccan festival in the desert in M'hamid (March), Merzouga (April), or Tighmert (end of July) means getting back on one's feet in a traditional world foreign to our ways of thinking: subtle in the art of welcome and exchange, astonishing in what it gives off that is powerful and irresistible.It is approaching codes and ways of being without necessar…
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