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Morocco and southern Spain were favourite destinations when I was a student in Manchester in the 1970s. We could get a cheap package tour flight to Alicante, ditch the package holiday, jump on a bus to Malaga and then onto Algeciras to take a ferry to Tangiers. We left behind the (more often than not) rainy skies of Manchester for the piercing azure of Morocco
Scholar and author Deborah Kapchan discusses the histroy and practice of Moroccan Gnawa music.
This year’s Harbourfront’s TORQUE dance series opens October 26-28 with Fouad Boussouf’s NÄSS (Arabic for “people”), inspired by his childhood in Morocco and revolutionary Moroccan musicians Nass el Ghiwane. BroadwayWorld spoke to Boussouf about the piece, its world travels before reaching Toronto, and its and ever-changing nature.
The Sahara desert’s most acclaimed musicians Tinariwen have many A-list admirers in the western music world. Brian Eno, Carlos Santana, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Mick Jones of The Clash and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme are all among them.
It begins with the mystical image of seven men facing the back of the stage, their bodies lit in silhouette in front of a painted gauze backdrop that