Gnaoua Festival Berlin No2
Friday 16.08.2019 3pm | summer garden, Saal
Admission: Workshop: free | Concerts: Advance sale 12 EUR, Box office 16 EUR / 12 EUR discount
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen
Production
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP with SIMO LAGNAWI
16/08/2019 | 3pm | summer garden
Free event
Open to all who are interested. Registration is not required.
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A comprehensive portrait of Simo Lagnawi, published in the British »Sunday Tribune« at the end of June 2019, concludes with the words of journalist Jude Cowan Montagne: »As a Londoner I feel lucky to have Simo based here, an expert who shares his skills with us within and outside the music community of my city.« We’d like to add that as Berliners, we now have the opportunity to meet the ‘expert’ in a workshop and immerse ourselves into the complex culture of Gnaoua. If you feel like it, come along to the workshop in the summer garden with your own rhythm instruments. |
CONCERT
MASTERCLASS BAND - MAJID BEKKAS & ALY KEïTA
16/08/2019 | 7pm | Auditorium
Advance sale 12 EUR, Box office 16 EUR / 12 EUR discount
Last year they performed one of the most beautiful concerts of the festival: It was the fruit of an intense collaboration between outstanding musicians from Berlin and Majid Bekkas and Aly Keita.
line-up
- Majid Bekkas - gimbri, e-guitar, vocal
- Aly Keita - balafon
- Arcadius Didavi - e-bass
- Djielifily Sako - Kora
- Moussa Coulibaly - N'goni/balafon
- Myriam El Haik - piano
- Marth-Jose Fambo - piano/keyboard
- Jarita Freydank - drums/vocal
- Willy Sahel - E-Bass/vocal
- Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla - e-guitar/vocal
- Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq - sax
CONCERT
MEHDI QAMOUM AKA MEDICAMENT
16/08/2019 | 9pm | Auditorium
Advanced sale 12 EUR, Box office 16 EUR / 12 EUR discount
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He is regarded as the »enfant terrible« of the contemporary music scene in Morocco. |
line-up
- Mehdi Qamoum - gimbri, vocals, leader
- Mourad Bachkou - qraqeb, vocals
- Hamid Zriouil - piano
- Driss Yamdah - qraqeb, vocals
- Younes Teftal - drums
- Ousama Menay - bass
- Mahfoud Janadi - electric guitar
GNAOUA FESTIVAL BERLIN No2
They came from West African countries now called Mauritania, Senegal, Niger and Mali, many of them from Western Sudan. For centuries, West Africans, often still children, were kidnapped, enslaved and deported by caravan trade routes to today's Maghreb states. In the 16th century, one of the largest centres of trans-Saharan human trafficking was in Morocco, about 150 kilometres from Marrakech.
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Today Essaouira is one of the most important cultural centres of Gnaoua. There are various assumptions about the origin of the term »Gnaoua«. It was probably derived from the Arabic »Guinea«, i.e. »black«. A derivation from the Berber akal n iguinaouen, »land of blacks«, is also possible. The »Gnaouis«, the black Moroccans, trace their cultural origins back to the Hausa from states such as today's Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger, the Peul, whose principalities stretched from Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Chad to Sudan, the Wolof culture in Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania, and above all to the Bambara and Songhai, whose empires concentrated around Niger and shaped the regions linguistically and culturally from the 15th to the 17th century. The Gnaouis blended the spiritual music of these very different West African cultures of origin with Sufi traditions and musical styles of the Jewish and Muslim Arabs and Amazigh North Africans. The outcome is a resilient, spiritual music and a curative practice, the Gnaoua culture, whose musical core is the driving rhythm of the metal »qraqeb«, the predecessor of the flamenco castanets. |
The UNESCO is considering including Gnaoua music in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2019.
The GNAOUA FESTIVAL BERLIN No2 is presented by
The Partners
Our special thanks to Jörg Grotjohann, Cultural Attaché of the German Embassy in Rabat, for his kind assistance.
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