style:
ethno
booking area:
Europe
available:
all year 2011 on request
(please contact us)
contact:
Beata Bęben
booking@concerts.pl
ph./fax +48.91.4237712
mobile: +48.503.173959

For centuries, Gnawa music has been played in the Djema El Fna (Assembly of the Dead), a large square in Marrakech, Morocco, that serves as a gathering place for both locals and North African traders. With an audience of snake charmers, hustlers, tourists, and travelers, the rhythmic clacking of the large metal clappers known as quaraqeb, the deep-plucked notes of the sentir, and the heartfelt chanting of the invocations provide both a soundtrack and a focus for the square's energy.

Hassan Hakmoun cut his teeth in the larger-than-life arena of the Djema El Fna. Rather than let the "keep-it-pure" sensibilities of world music categorizers stifle him, he continues the crossroads tradition of borrowing whatever music blows into the village square.

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