Mehdi Mozaine concludes the concerts of the second session of the International Festival of Popular Arts in Taroudant
In the early hours of Sunday morning, July 9, the activities of the second session of the International Festival of Popular Arts in Taroudant, organized by the Moroccan Association for Cultural Studies and Folklore Arts, concluded in partnership with the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication - the Culture Sector - and the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, and in cooperation with the Souss Region Council. Massa and the soil community of Taroudant.
Hamas inflamed the masses of the closing evening, the Moroccan artist Mahdi Mozaine, after the square of August 20 in the heart of Taroudant was filled with pilgrims from Taroudant and its visitors, as they interacted with his songs such as “My Cell in My Heart is a Surgeon,” “Ya Lugram,” “Ya Hamad,” and “Shahal Soluni.” People have to fill my desires.” He also sang the song “Al-Ayoun, My Eyes, the Sahara is Moroccan,” and he celebrated alongside his fans, whose number exceeded 30,000 at the end of the festival, with the coronation of the Moroccan under-23 team in the African Cup, in a beautiful interaction that reflected the nobility of the festival’s message.
During the closing night, the “Roudanian Dakka” group, the Zagorian “Knee” band, and the Kabyle group “Terre n Tikfailite” performed in four concerts, interacting with the 20 August Square audiences, which mixed singing and local, Amazigh, popular and international music with uninterrupted enthusiasm. peer.
The first evening of the festival, in its second session, was opened in the space of August 20 Square in the city of Taroudant, with four concerts, to the tunes of the “Bahair El Dalia” band, a symbol of the intangible heritage of Rhodenia with melodic compasses, and the “Ahidous Azmaoun Boukchmir” group, led by Maestro Ahmed Al-Jedoubi, and the founder for more than 42 years, with its dances. Distinguished and unified, and the melodies of her songs whose words sing the beauty of nature, and the sublime human values of the Amazigh poetry poems in the Atlas, and the beautiful “Tmweet” in the Atlas, along with the Spanish group “CHACARS Y TAMBORES”, to conclude with the distinctive songs of the Amazigh artist Hussein Al-Tawoos with his Amazigh folk songs to the rhythm of the psalm He is the author of the songs “Yat Al-Qasit”, “Ik Rabbi Al-Mahaba”, “Irguid Leg”, “Ekatin Al-Eid” and others.
The fans of the International Festival of Folklore interacted with the artists and musicians of the ten concerts in the evenings of the International Festival of Folklore by chanting their songs and dancing to rhythms that combine the local and the national in their Amazigh dimensions, to mate with the international represented by groups from Spain, the Qabbalah and others.
The second session of the International Festival of Folklore, which bears the slogan: “The Amazigh heritage is a fundamental pillar for the advancement of Moroccan culture,” is supported by the communal council of the city of Taroudant and the council of the Souss-Massa region, in light of the royal care that His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God support him and grant him victory, attaches to the role it plays. It has the Amazigh culture within the fabric of the Moroccan cultural component, which is rich in its multiplicity of colors that represent the bond between the people and the throne through the Moroccan intangible heritage, which bets on the universality that characterizes it.
The second session aims to shed light on the most prominent event during this current year (2023) by approving the Amazigh New Year as an official holiday, to be celebrated by His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
The activities of the second session of the festival were marked by qualitative national and international participation embodied by artistic and singing groups from Taroudant, Agadir, the Middle Atlas and Zagora, as well as international bands from Spain, International Kabylia and Lebanon, in ten (10) artistic concerts.
The organizers of the second session are betting on the continuity of the successes of the first and second sessions, which attracted tens of thousands of Rudanian audiences and visitors to the city, who made pilgrimages to August 20 Square in the heart of Taroudant to listen to the festival’s artistic performances and lyrical links.
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