Agadir Timitar Festival

The 10th edition of the Timitar Agadir Festival "Signs and Cultures" will take place from 26 to 29 June 2013 in Agadir, promising an exceptional anniversary and a major programme: Majda El Roumi, Cheb Khaled, Marcel Khalifé & Al Mayadine Ensemble, Kenny Rogers, Hanggai, and Idir, to name but a few, are coming or returning to celebrate 10 years of communion with the public.

Information coming soon for this event.

The Timitar Festival is passing the highly symbolic milestone of its 7th edition. It has acquired maturity by asserting its personality through its choices and risk-taking. An assertion that, over the years, has made the festival one of the unmissable events for World Music. The most important festival in this category in Morocco and across Africa. This marks the age of reason and induces a time for reflection regarding the initial project, but above all on what constitutes the festival, its values, and its spirit. The festival has forged a strong identity by defending the notions of meeting, sharing, exchange, creation, reflection…
The festival has embraced the values of openness and exchange that are specific to the identity of port cities. But otherness, curiosity, and generosity are also values carried by the inhabitants of the Souss Massa Draâ region. A maturity also acquired thanks to the adherence and support of an ever-growing public. The desire to gather and be moved together around this same love of music is even stronger at each edition. Timitar is, therefore, a whole, an alchemy between a territory with a strong identity, a public, and artists. In 7 editions, more than 3,500 artists have been invited to share their universe, their culture, and their music. An exchange between the artists and the public, but also between the artists themselves.

The 6th edition of the Timitar Festival, which has become the annual meeting place for Amazigh and world music, took place from 1 to 5 July in Agadir. The Timitar Festival offers the best of traditional and contemporary repertoires. As a unifier of regional development projects, Timitar also promotes the creativity of local artists. The Timitar Festival has succeeded in building a loyal and growing audience. Driven by growing curiosity and enthusiasm, spectators can discover, or rediscover, musical treasures from here and elsewhere; its impact now far exceeds the geographical limits of the Souss Massa Drâa region and Morocco. The public that gathered in Agadir is made up of young people and adults alike, coming alone, in families, or in groups, and from all cultural backgrounds, social conditions, and very varied geographical areas (local, regional, national, and international public). The spectators of Timitar were once again offered a festival whose richness, novelty, and extreme diversity were able to thrill and surprise them.