The group, whose name translates to “the Gate to the Blues,” was founded in Marrakech in 2017 by Moroccan singer and awisha (three-stringed Moroccan lute) player Yousra Mansour and French guimbri ...

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 ...

and the hard rock beat of the drums is also accompanied by the rhythmic clanging of Gnawa castanets. Of course, they are not the first group by any means to meld North African music and Western ...

Out last month, Kan Ya Makan is a dynamic collection of multilingual songs fusing everything from classical music and Arabic folk to North African Gnawa music. Translated to Once Upon a Time ...

The New Shul will ring in the holiday of Shavuot on June 1st with the fifth annual edition of The Kumah: Rise Up Festival ...

BICEP have returned to their DOVE alias with new single “CHROMA 009 KR36” – a collaboration with London-based artist Kehina.

The history symbolism and ritual practice of Moroccos Gnawa traditionsThe film draw upon years of interview footage to explore both how this ritual works and what its ...

The Gnawa people have been shrouded in mystery since ... the 16th century In the last two decades the power of their trance music has come into the spotlight thanks to Western musicians Led ...