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News 31 May 2012 3 min read

Jazz au Chellah: An edition under the sign of "the diversity of meetings"

Jazz au Chellah: An edition under the sign of "the diversity of meetings"
The 17th edition of the Jazz au Chellah festival, which is being held from 13 to 17 June, honours meetings and fusion, which have become the trademark of this annual cultural event.This year, it is the diversity of meetings that the organisers have put on the menu of this festival, which has given birth to a new form of jazz that, by mixing genres and becoming a place of mixing for artists, tends to better sweep away prejudices, indicates the delegation of the European Union, organiser of this happening."Each evening reserves its share of surprises and something strong happens: it is the moment of the meeting", explains Majid Bekkas, Moroccan artistic director of the festival.In the opening, a Greco-Moroccan meeting in homage to the Mediterranean with the Greek group Kostas Theodorou, whose jazz is imbued with Mediterranean and Balkan accents, who will join the quartet of Simo Baazaoui,…

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