Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...

Brooklyn Gnawa music group Innov Gnawa have gotten some recognition within the world of Western pop music thanks to their live and in-studio collaborations with UK electronic musician Bonobo, and they ...

ESSAOURIA, Morocco (AFP) — In a riot of color, acrobatics and drum beats, Morocco's gnawa artists joyously celebrated the inclusion of their ancient art-form in UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural ...

RABAT, May 2 (KUNA) -- Universal music will be the title of the upcoming Gnawa and World music festival which will be held in Al-Sawaira City west of Rabat from 22-25 of June. The 9th version of the ...

"When I first heard Gnaoua music I heard Jimmy Blanton in the sound of the hajhouj, I heard the blues... I heard the black church..." The words of jazz master Randy Weston ring true with each ...

In a manner consonant with some of the most deeply held tenets of West African musical ethics, the two musicians shone brightly without outshining each other. The material is mostly drawn from Malian ...

In 2021, the Tiny Desk x globalFEST series was created to promote international music discovery. For the fifth edition, we present artists from Cabo Verde, France and Colombia. Gnawa music has always ...

For decades, the Tangier home of Abdellah El Gourd has been a wellspring of the Gnawa musical tradition and a place of pilgrimage for jazz performers. But it has fallen into deep disrepair. By Aida ...

It’s twilight in Essaouira. There’s a stippled afterglow smudging the Atlantic horizon, and the last kitesurfers are padding, barefoot, back to their digs. Behind the beach, snail-sellers are serving ...