Morocco News News Morocco » Music: Morocco's Gnaoua festival celebrates African roots through music and cultural exchange
The festival is known for creating unexpected collaborations between artists from different musical backgrounds, and this year's edition continued that tradition.
News Morocco » Music: Ancient Gnawa music — dubbed Moroccan Blues — finds new audiences in Europe, America
Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...
News Morocco » Music: A Brazilian, Moroccan and Israeli singer brings her unique North African sound to NYC
(New York Jewish Week) — Though she grew up in Israel, Tamar Bloch’s childhood was a mishmash of cultures. With a Moroccan mother and Brazilian father, Bloch often heard Portuguese and Arabic ...
News Morocco » Music: Moroccan music the main act as Tunisia hosts summer fests
With several artists from the kingdom featured, Morocco's presence at major Tunisian cultural events is part of a trend that is growing year after year.Several Moroccan artists are headlining the main ...
News Morocco » Music: Morocco showcases cultural diversity at New York’s SummerStage festival
Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield will host a major celebration of Moroccan music on July 15 as New York’s SummerStage Festival presents “Morocco: From Dakhla to Casablanca,” an event dedicated entirely ...
News Morocco » Music: Morocco's Gnawa musicians bring ancient songs to modern audiences
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News Morocco » Music: Morocco taps African roots with Gnawa music revival
RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...
News Morocco » Music: Paris des Arts: Special edition in Fez, Morocco
This week, Paris des Arts turns its cameras to Fez, the Moroccan imperial city, for the 29th edition of the Festival of World Sacred Music, which celebrates the dialogue between cultures and ...
News Morocco » Music: Time Traveling with Musical Recordings from Mid-20th-Century Morocco
Always without formulating the concept, I had based my sense of being in the world partly on an unreasoned conviction that certain areas of the earth’s surface contained more magic than others. Had ...
News Morocco » Music: Morocco Makes Cultural History in New York’s Central Park
Arab and African country to be honored at New York’s renowned SummerStage Festival, bringing the country’s diverse musical heritage to one of the world’s most iconic cultural venues.
News Morocco » Music: Saving Historic Songs, and a Jewish Culture in Morocco
For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone. By Aida Alami TANGIER, Morocco — They sang to put their ...