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Morocco: Essaouira Gnawa Music Festival

Written byHaitham Sabbah
Posted 27 June 2006 19:03 GMT

Samir talks about the huge success of Essaouira Gnawa and world music festival. He said: “Once again Essaouira has turned on a world class music festival. More than 500.000 people attended between June 22 through 25. Last year's record of 450.000 was easily beaten.”

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