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News 27 Jun 2013 3 min read

At the crossroads of country and Celtic

- The Timitar Festival kicked off its tenth edition on Thursday evening... In a decade, this crossroads between Amazigh culture and world music has confirmed its specificity.
- For its first evening, Timitar bet on a programme focused on the regional cultural richness brought by stars from Morocco and elsewhere.
At the crossroads of country and Celtic
It is 8 p.m., Al Amal Square is starting to see its first visitors arrive. Everyone is waiting for the arrival of two artists who are visiting Morocco for the first time. Nolwen Leroy, winner of the French Star Academy, and Kenny Rogers, a monument of country music, were eagerly awaited by thousands of local spectators and as many people who made the trip to Agadir. Nolwen has come a long way since her first steps as the winner of the Star Academy in 2002. A little over ten years later, she became the ambassador of Breton music and does not hesitate to push her dialect on all the stages she performs on and through her latest album "Ô filles de l'eau" with strongly marine and Celtic sounds. In Agadir, the Breton singer finds herself in her element. Her music celebrates the sea and does not take long to leave aside the language of Molière to embrace her local origins. Her lyrics and rhyth…

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