Closing of the 16th edition of the Gnaoua and World Music Festival

Closing in apotheosis of the 16th edition of the Gnaoua and World Music Festival. Sunday 23 June current, the Moulay Hassan square in Essaouira had been set on fire by the talented and great maâlem Mustapha Baqbou, who knew how to give joy and pleasure to a crowd in a trance thanks to his authentic Gnaoua “trouhas”.A concert of high quality enhanced by a magnificent fusion with the American drummer Will Calhoun. An exercise of sharing and marriage of cultures and musical references that confirms the very successful trend of fusions during this edition.After the joyful opening evening which invited three musical schools as distant as they were different, but which knew how to compose together to offer the general public a wonderful canvas of rhythms and colours guided by the hajhouj of the Gnaoua maâlem Said Kouyou, the Emirati rhythms of Annadi Al Bahri came to marry the Moroccan musica…