Music festivals can sometimes feel repetitive. If you've gone to a few over the summer, just think about how many times you've seen the same artist perform in different cities. Reinventing the wheel ...

What happens when you combine Spanish, French, African and Arabic music? Bedouin shepherds frequenting the Algerian port of Oran first dived into this mixing bowl in the early twentieth century. What ...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced a major musical event in Morocco ahead of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, featuring globally renowned artists including Moroccan-American rapper ...

CASABLANCA, MOROCCO — This is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, but you wouldn’t know it from the music festivals. The Casablanca Festival turns the commercial capital into an urban Woodstock, with ...

Paul Bowles over a five-month period from July to December 1959. It is a snapshot, or perhaps a time capsule, of a culture then relatively pure and unmolested by the world outside. Paul Bowles lived ...

I had the pleasure of hosting an in-studio visit by members of the group Innov Gnawa earlier this week at KCRW, and I was entranced by the powerful rhythms and chants. Gnawa is Moroccan trance music, ...

The borrowings of the Jews of the Maghreb from the Andalusian music and the qasîdah? The musical styles of the Muslim, and Jewish communities appear to be very colorful and mutually influential, ...

Morocco’s 2025 festival season is kicking off, offering a vibrant mix of genres from pop and rap to sacred and traditional music across cities like Casablanca, Rabat, Fès, and Essaouira. Yabiladi ...

Elton John defied hostile Islamists to headline Morocco's biggest music festival and received a rapturous welcome from a crowd of thousands. By Tom Pfeiffer Elton John defied hostile Islamists to ...

The recent Friendship Fest featured some of Christian music’s top artists playing their songs for a crowd of some 85,000—mostly Muslims—in the North African nation of Morocco. While religious, ...