Six Hudson Valley concerts to catch in May, including Eric Andersen, Ghostface Killah, Ben Folds, Memorials, Samantha Fish, and Saha Gnawa.

North African music blends centuries of Berber, Arab, Andalusian, and colonial influences into a vibrant cultural force. From ...

WMI's Let's Dance series will return with fresh new music inspired by Morocco and the Middle East. Saha Gnawa brings North African futurism to the NYC stage by blending traditional "sufi blues" music ...

The musical vision of drummer, percussionist and composer Daniel Freedman extends well beyond the reach of his drum kit. A master rhythmic catalyst, he brings a boundless imagination to his gift for ...

Saturday night at Jamboree with the fantastic Gnawa Blues All Stars playing traditional Gnawa (sacred trance music from Africa / Morocco), with support from ace singer-songwriter Tilda Gebhardt!

It opens with the group call-and-response of “Soudani Manayou”, a tribute to the Sahel ancestors who brought this music to Morocco, and featuring Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, while the drums, qraqebs ...

Working with producer Kamasi Washington, the Moroccan-born, Los Angeles-based singer channels vintage spiritual jazz on a solo record that feels fresh, literary, and ecstatic. As starting points for ...

On a stadium-sized stage next to the Atlantic Ocean in Essaouira, Morocco, musician Omar Hayat is wielding a guimbri bass lute in front of a crowd of 20, maybe 30,000 people. It’s the annual Gnawa and ...

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 ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites American ...

The President of the 42nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO, Amb. Simona-Mirela Miculescu, had an official visit to Tangier, Morocco, on April 29th, 2024, on the occasion of the ...