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Gnaoua World Music Festival

Three days of Gnawa trance music in Essaouira, with masters from across Morocco jamming with jazz and world musicians on free stages by the sea.

Photo: Anderson sady · CC BY-SA 3.0
When
Three days in June
Where
Essaouira
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