For more than 25 years, the Gnaoua and World Music Festival of Essaouira has been a key player in Morocco’s cultural economy and a reference across Africa, highlighted Neila Tazi, the Festival’s ...

But for the 21st edition of the Gnawa Festival in Essaouria the Alizee drew breath and slept, if fitfully, through four days and nights of intense trance music featuring the ghimbri bass lute and ...