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21 Jun 2013
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Unimaginable marriage between three folkloric colours
It was with an unimaginable marriage between three folkloric colours as distant as they are different and a colourful parade, all in a festive atmosphere, that the 16th edition of the Gnaoua and World Music Festival, organised under the High Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, opened on Thursday in Essaouira.
And the introduction happens without transition with an opening concert on the Moulay Hassan stage, which immediately set the tone through a fusion between the Gnawa percussion of Maâlem Said Kouyou, the warrior rhythms of Annadi Al Bahri (United Arab Emirates), and the joyful Soussi folklore of the Howara troupe. This opening evening, marked by the presence of the Advisor to HM the King and founding president of the Essaouira-Mogador Association, André Azoulay, and the Minister of Culture of the State of Bahrain, Sheikha May bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, as well as ambassadors accredited to Morocco and other personalities, was set to continue with Omar Hayat, representing the new generation of maâlems who has forged a style all his own, before closing as it began: on a fusion between Ebdelkebir Merchane, who will share the stage with the Zimbabwean Eska, representing the new generation of…
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