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The ballroom of the trance, the fusion and sharing, started by a high parade colour orchestrated by troops gnawa, hmadcha and Issaoua which were sung and enchanted the audience who has invested the arteries of the Medina of the city of winds.

Four days, Essaouira will result in a space which will be sung the brotherhood by the union, and celebrated the cohabitation by the opening on all musical genres.

It is a gathering of eminent persons who attended the opening ceremony of the festival, including including Mr. André Azoulay, Adviser to SM the King and President and founder of the Essaouira-Mogador Association, Ms Touria Jabrane Kryatif, Minister of Culture, Mr. Jamal Rhmani, Minister of employment and vocational training, local authorities and elected officials.

This festival, the city of Essaouira gives the example of a Morocco attached to its glorious past and looking to a bright future, a country of tolerance, freedom, creativity and encounter of civilizations, noted Ms. Touria Jabrane on this occasion.

This festival is a basis for the Moroccan culture, musical heritage and artistic national and the modern democratic Morocco under the leadership of SM the King, she said.

And the Minister to add, that this celebration of the music is also a basis for human creativity based on the successful among cultures and civilizations interaction, that many Gnawa troops will be present at the Festival world Arts Nègres (FESMAN) to be held in December next in Dakar (Senegal).

His goal - tee, the President of the municipal Council of Essaouira, Mr. Mohamed El Ferrah, indicated that the city of Essaouira is proud to host this grandiose meeting of culture, the music and art, and festival-goers, Moroccan and foreign.

The city will spare no effort to accompany this festival, the international will, which celebrates the values of sharing, openness and modernity and which erected Essaouira as an example of the modern Morocco and progress, he added.

Support for all events in the city of the trade winds is a strategic choice designed to Essaouira a capital of culture, art and sport, and support for sustainable local development, he added.

The iconoclast Mâalem gnaoui Mahmoud Guinea was the first to climb on stage before merge, then, with the troupe of Brazilian music based in Berlin "Afoxé loni" and the French trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo.

This opening concert of continued through the provision of the French jazz band Sixun who joined, subsequently, in a merger with the unavoidable Mâalem Mustapha Bakbou.

It is in communion, combining originality and authenticity, music from here and elsewhere, that will continue the festival, one of the most typical and a popular cultural scene Moroccan.