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The Gnaoua World Music Festival is a Gnawa music festival held annually in Essaouira, Morocco.
The festival provides a platform for exchanges and a meeting point of music and dialogue between foreign artists and the mystical Gnaoua (also Gnawa) musicians. In this melting-pot of musical fusion, the Gnaoua masters invite players of jazz, pop, rock and contemporary World music to explore new avenues. |
The Gnaoua World Music Festival |
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The Gnaoua World Music Festival is a Gnawa music festival held annually in Essaouira, Morocco.
The festival provides a platform for exchanges and a meeting point of music and dialogue between foreign artists and the mystical Gnaoua (also Gnawa) musicians. In this melting-pot of musical fusion, the Gnaoua masters invite players of jazz, pop, rock and contemporary World music to explore new avenues. |
FES FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC |
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The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is widely acclaimed as one of the world’s great musical events. Now in its 15th year, it brings together performers from every corner of our planet for a week of artistic excellence in Morocco’s ancient holy city. It represents the spiritual heart of Islam – peaceful, pluralistic, generous and cheerful. It honours all the world’s spiritual traditions and it dissolves musical boundaries. |
CAFTAN 2011 |
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| CAFTAN is where glamour and elegance reign as absolute Masters. It is the meeting point for experienced designers and young talents – A great display of Moroccan and Eastern haute couture.
The Moroccan caftan is not only a beautiful traditional dress, but also a piece of art.
The CAFTAN Fashion Show is organised every year by “Femmes du Maroc” Magazine and entitled “La Semaine De La Mode” (Fashion week), The selections starts early March with the CAFTAN Fashion Show in early May |
Moussem of IMILCHIL: The Marriage Festival |
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Deep in the heart of Morocco survives a culture with an ancient way of life virtually untouched by the outside world. To this day, scattered among the peaks of the High Atlas Mountains, Berber tribes maintain traditions begun by their ancestors hundreds of years ago.
High on a verdant plateau sits IMILCHIL, the pastoral gathering place for the surrounding tribes of the AIT SOKHAM and AIT BOUGUEMMAZ. They gather at the end of summer, in the early days of September, having spent the spring and the heat of summer in the mountain peaks with their flocks. Now it is time to begin the transition to leave the nomadic life behind and settle in for the winter months. It is time to prepare the plots and terraces for the autumn sowing. And now it is the time, as it has been for centuries, for the social gathering to occur.
Berber tribes gather for the celebrations. As well as being the place to choose a potential spouse, the Moussem of Imilchil operates as a fair or a big market, with artisans and farmers offering their produce to a wider market than is available at the weekly Souk.
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