A joint Italian-Moroccan concert presented at the 2025 Fez Festival of World Sacred Music has received the “Mercurio Alato” prize.
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 ...
The Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco is set to host a significant international event titled «Music and Song in the Moroccan ...
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 ...
Naïma Samih, a legendary figure in Moroccan music, has passed away at the age of 72 after a long illness. Born in 1953 in ...