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25 May 2013
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Mawazine Festival: It's started!
A highly anticipated moment in the Moroccan artistic calendar, the Mawazine-Rhythms of the World Festival started on Friday evening in Rabat, off to a flying start, for a new edition that promises to be as promising as the previous eleven.
From the opening evening, the programme served a tasty menu to the taste of all audiences: the sumptuous Rihanna made the OLM Souissi tremble, Walid Toufic worthily represented the oriental repertoire on the Nahda stage, the Tambours de Brazza made the Bouregreg sail, whose North bank welcomed, with nostalgia, the Moroccan group Siham, with Ghiwan Salwan and Jil Ghiwan Jalal in the opening act. The various stages were taken over by tens of thousands of spectators, who communed with their idols; all in all, one of the objectives of Mawazine, which has become synonymous with escape and lyrical travel for festival-goers, while making the capital an immense open-air stage where street shows and parades create a joyful carnival of sounds and colours. Like the previous editions, Mawazine-2013 will host, over eight days, mega-stars of world music, the most beautiful Arab voices, and national s…
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