The Gnawa World Music Festival of Essaouira
Casablanca, Morocco, March 22, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Essaouira, or Mogador, is a very beautiful city, thanks to its fascinating history, its historical monuments, its natural spaces, and its cultural heritage. And gnawa is the best example of art representing the rich musical heritage of this city. So, the Gnawa and World Music Festival is organized to celebrate this art and to give an international dimension to this musical genre and to its "maalemsan", in order to make them communicate with other artists who represent different styles of music.
Every year, the greatest artists from all over the world come to this festival to discover the beauty of this city and to make a fusion between tagnaouit and their different styles of music. Thus, a perfect and an extraordinary Masterpiece is created in the shape of one of the most amazing festivals in the world that makes the audience look forward to the beginning of this great occasion.
In just 10 years, the Gnawa and World Music of Festival of Essaouira has made this lovely Atlantic sea town one of the most important touristic destinations in Morocco, together with Marrakech, Agadir, Tangiers, and Fez . Today, Essaouira and its festival are closely associated in the minds and hearts of those who know them.
The original philosophy of this "festival like no other" is still the same: to give the Gnaoua cultural heritage the opportunity to express itself and to flourish by creating a space of dialogue between this ancestral music and other world music.
The Festival has managed to avoid any "folklore" of this traditional music, and to stand out among other music festivals in the world by its particular soul. In just ten years, the Festival of Essaouira has managed to regal Moroccans with a priceless piece of their cultural heritage, the music of the Gnawa.
The Gnawa and World Music Festival of Essaouira brings together hundreds of thousands of people for several days in a festive space of musical emotion. Thanks to its originality and authenticity, the "Woodstock of Morocco" has found a tremendous echo among journalists, music lovers, or lovers of Morocco, who have recognized in its message of peace and dialogue its willingness to share through music and bring together all cultures.