RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Singer and movie star Jennifer Lopez expressed excitement Thursday about kicking off Morocco’s Mawazine music festival, while insisting she’s still just the girl from the Bronx.
Arabs, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Sufis, sub-Saharan Africans and miscellaneous remnants of colonialism all inform “native” Moroccan culture. Therefore, it’s not surprising that the country’s music ...
For more than 25 years, the Gnaoua and World Music Festival of Essaouira has been a key player in Morocco’s cultural economy and a reference across Africa, highlighted Neila Tazi, the Festival’s ...
The Master Musicians of Joujouka play music that’s centuries-old, not as folk revivalists, but in a living tradition that offers healing and transformation as well as sublime entertainment. Since the ...
West African Sufi songs / Musa Dieng Kala (Senegal) -- Sufi music and songs of Morocco / Ibn 'Arabi Ensemble (Morocco) -- El Hachemi / Houria Aïchi (Algeria) -- Sacred music and songs of the Middle ...