Closing in apotheosis of the 12th edition of the Atlantic Andalusian Festival of Essaouira

Organised from 29 to 31 October, the 12th Atlantic Andalusian Festival of Essaouira ended on Saturday. This edition gave pride of place to a new generation of artists who chose to revisit, in their own way, the repertoire of Andalusian music by focusing more particularly on the Judeo-Muslim aspect of this music.The 12th edition of the Atlantic Andalusian Festival of Essaouira ended on Saturday evening, with a happening as the headliner for this closing evening with the voices of Benjamin Bouzaglou, the Afriat brothers, and Jacob Tordjman on the same stage for an anthology concert of Judeo-Arabic music. Liturgical chants and the most emblematic and popular pieces of this repertoire buried in the deepest part of the Moroccan imagination and all nostalgias thrilled the music lovers of Andalusian music who came in large numbers this evening to the main stage of the Essaouira sports hall.A s…