Music festivals can sometimes feel repetitive. If you've gone to a few over the summer, just think about how many times you've seen the same artist perform in different cities. Reinventing the wheel ...

CASABLANCA, MOROCCO — This is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, but you wouldn’t know it from the music festivals. The Casablanca Festival turns the commercial capital into an urban Woodstock, with ...

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...

Justin Timberlake will be the opening act of Morocco‘s 13th Mawazine World Rhythms Festival held annually in Rabat. The world music extravaganza features local artists and international acts which in ...

I had the pleasure of hosting an in-studio visit by members of the group Innov Gnawa earlier this week at KCRW, and I was entranced by the powerful rhythms and chants. Gnawa is Moroccan trance music, ...

Paul Bowles over a five-month period from July to December 1959. It is a snapshot, or perhaps a time capsule, of a culture then relatively pure and unmolested by the world outside. Paul Bowles lived ...

Morocco's Marrakech may be one of the world's most unique and luxurious travel destinations, but the country's 4th largest city is now so much more than travelers could have ever imagined. In the last ...

Reporting from Marrakech, Morocco — Around 2 a.m. on a balmy night in Marrakech, a hundred or so dancers at the waning end of their rave swayed in front of a tiny moonlit stage. They had found their ...