Essaouira gives substance to intangible wealth

In Essaouira, culture is not a luxury, but rather a lever for local development that punctuates the city's current events and provides it with its aura. But 2014 will remain etched in the annals as the year that saw the birth of concrete and practical initiatives aimed at reviving and preserving treasures of Moroccan cultural heritage. Two actions have materialized and safeguarded, under the sky of Essaouira, jewels of Moroccan musical heritage that will thus remain etched in the memory of the national cultural scene, namely the "Gnaoua Musical Anthology", a collection of pieces dedicated to this ancestral art and aimed at enhancing its rhythmic, melodic, lyrical, and stylistic richness, and "Lqoddam Jdid Saouiri", an ancestral piece of Andalusian music reconstituted and transcribed by young researchers from Essaouira. Unveiled last June on the occasion of the 17th edition of the Gnaoua…