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| | Music : Morocco celebrates World Music Day :: moroccoTimes.com |
 | | Chellah, a ravishing Roman site and Merinide necropolis in Rabat, gave a touch of magic to the Andalusian music concert given, for the first time in the history of Morocco, by an orchestra of over 120 musicians and chorus singers from various regions of Morocco (Tetuan, Chefchaouen, Rabat, Salé, Fez and Meknès). |
 | | In Casablanca, well-know music bands such as “Nass El Ghiwane,” “Jil Jilala,” “Mesnaoua,” “Lamchaheb,” “Tagada,” “Assiham,” “Ben Aguida,” “Banat al Ghiwane,” “Les Senhaji” or “Les Bourgogne,” as well as another sixty musical bands from various regions of the kingdom, staged free concerts. |
 | | Music lovers, who teemed the square to sample the divine tunes of the Andalusia repertoire, travelled through history when cultures interacted in the western Mediterranean region of Southern Spain and North Africa to give birth to this musical style. |
| www.moroccotimes.com /paper/article.asp?idr=49&id=7574 (508 words) |
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