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Concerts, meetings and performances up and down the country.
From Fes to the Valley of Roses, from Essaouira to Rabat and Tan Tan, Morocco will turn into one big stage for the month of May with concerts, meetings and performances up and down the country. First up is the Festival Musiques Sacrées du Monde in Fes from May 6-14, a musical event that animates the imperial city by creating a synergy between art and spirituality each year.
Women are the protagonists of this 22nd edition with the theme “the women founders” celebrating the role and influence of women of the Orient in music and poetry. Kelaat M’gouna, approximately 100 km from Ouarzazate, hosts the Moussem des Roses, or rose festival, from May 8-10 in honour of the Damask rose growing in the valley.
The colourful and perfumed festival includes concerts, dancing and events including the election of Miss Rose.
From May 12-15 it is the turn of the Festival Gnaoua et Musiques du Monde in Essaouira, one of the world’s most important music festivals attracting roughly 500,000 people each year. Numerous artists will entertain the eclectic public again this year with a variety of music ranging from Gnaoua to jazz, hiphop, offunky, afrobeat and world music.
The capital Rabat is to host the 15th edition of the Mawazine Festival bringing together pop, jazz and soul legends from all over the world from 20-28 May. This year the festival will open with an inaugural concert by pop king Chris Brown and close with a performance by Christina Aguilera.
Last but not least, the Berber Tan Tan festival from May 23-27 brings together around 30 nomadic tribes from southern Morocco and other parts of northwest Africa in testimony to the cultural patrimony of the region’s various ethnic groups. The guest of honour of the 11th edition of the festival is Tunisia. (ANSAmed).
