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11th Edition, the magic continued

The Festival Gnaoua and musics of the world of Essaouira reserves this year still many surprises to his faithful and cosmopolitan public.

Past the symbolic cap of 10 years and 500 000 festival-goers, the festival offers this year a rich programming, reaffirming its commitment to showcase the gnaoua heritage in all its diversity and to invite the best world and jazz artists to occur within single and magic of Essaouira.

Honour the gnaoua musicians first, with this year a new scene dedicated to Bab Doukkala, allowing unconditional rhythms gnaouis find their stars, Hamid El Kasri to Abdelkébir Merchane, for 100% Gnaoua concerts, and the lilac traditional in the exceptional Gnaoua Zaouia every evening at midnight for the purists.

World and for jazz musicians to express every night on stage Bab Sebaa offering a concentrate of the best current sounds: the Trio Joubran unexpected which brings together three brothers to the English blues giant Justin Adams oud players through the unavoidable Toumani Diabaté and Salmunori Group Korean traditional percussion.

The Moulay Hassan stage will receive it the biggest current groups in styles very various, jazz bubbling Eric Legnini to reggae of Ky - Mani Marley through the great jazz musician Wayne Shorter and his quartet with apotheosis in a concert by the Orchestre National de Barbès, genuine musical pot at the end of the festival Sunday. Moulay Hassan will also be the place of meeting between music gnaouie and music in the world concerts of fusion of new sounds arise from the confrontation of the sintir and rattlesnakes with the finest instruments from here or elsewhere, percussion, trumpet, saxophone, kora, pianoÉ

On small stages in Medina, the new generation of maâlems, embodied by Saïd Boulhimas which caused a sensation last year during the concert "Band of Gnawa", will be alongside the great Maâlems such as Allal Soudany, Saïd El Bourqui or Adeslam Belghiti, to offer the best Festival music gnaouie with day and evening concerts. Always in the same spirit of openness and dialogue established by the Festival, the place Al Khayma and grain market open also at other traditional music Moroccan, Ganga, Haddarates and Hmadcha.

Fusion-electronics enthusiasts and fans of the current Moroccan scene musicians are not left with two scenes dedicated, the Pepsi stage and the Méditel stage.

10 places of concerts which each will be digging according to his taste, 10 different but complementary programming forming parts of a single puzzle, that of a pioneer festival and cosmopolitan, whose musical quality is more to prove, and that each year is the challenge of vibrating hundreds of thousands of people at the rate of the most beautiful music!

Then make you from 26 to 29 June 2008 to begin a new decade of sharing and musical vibrations!