Gnawa Festival in Essaouira 2010: The 13th edition of the Gnawa Festival will be held this year from Thursday 24/06/2010 to Sunday, 27.06.2010.
The Festival Gnawa and World Music Essaouira reserves this year of many surprises to its faithful and cosmopolitan audience. Crossing the symbolic course of 12 years and 500 000 festival-goers, this year the festival offers a rich program, reaffirming its commitment to the Gnaoua heritage in all its diversity and to invite the best world and jazz artists to come and perform in the unique and magical town of Essaouira.
Gnawa musicians to honor first of all, this year with a new scene which is dedicated to Bab Doukkala, allowing fans of Gnaoua rhythms to meet their stars, from Hamid El Kasri to Abdelkébir Merchane for concerts Gnaoua 100%, and as the traditional lilas in the exceptional setting of the Gnawa Zaouia every night at midnight for the purists.
World and jazz musicians in turn will perform every night on stage Moulay Hassan, offering a combination of the best current sounds: the unexpected Trio Joubran which includes three brothers oud players in the English giant of the blues from Justin Adams by the inevitable Toumani Diabaté and percussion in traditional Korean Salmunori Group. Apotheosis in a concert of the Orchestre National de Barbès, a real musical pot, closed the festival. Moulay Hassan will also be the meeting place for music Gnawa and world music to fusion concerts where new sounds arise from the confrontation of guembri and rattlesnakes with the finest instruments here or elsewhere, percussion, trumpet, saxophone, kora, piano
The scene Bab Marrakech will also be granted the greatest contemporary bands in various styles, from jazz bubbling Eric Legnini reggae Ky-Mani Marley through the immense jazzman Wayne Shorter and his quartet. ...
On small stages in the medina, the new generation of maâlems, embodied by Saïd Boulhimas who made a splash last year during the "Band of Gnawa", will be alongside major Maâlems such as Allal Sudani, Said El Bourqui or Adeslam Belghiti, to offer the best music festival with concerts in Gnaoua day and evening. In the same spirit of openness and dialogue established by the Festival, the Al Khaimah and the Corn Market is also open to other Moroccan traditional music, Ganga, and Haddarates Hmadcha.
Fusion-lovers and fans of electronic musicians from the Moroccan scene today will not be left with two scenes portraying the scene and the scene Pepsi Meditel.
10 concert sites from which each can draw according to his tastes, programming 10 different but complementary, forming parts of a unique puzzle, that of a pioneering and cosmopolitan festival, the musical quality is well proven, and that Each year the challenge to vibrate hundreds of thousands of people to the rhythm of the most beautiful music! 
