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Morocco and Israel to Celebrate Andalusian Music
March 18, 2022
Two concerts in Rabat and Casablanca are set to celebrate Andalusian music.
The first concert will be held on March 30, 2022, at 8:30 p.m. at Rabat's Mohammed V National Theater. The second concert will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 8:30 p.m. at Casablanca's Palais du Mechouar.
This exceptional cultural event will feature a prominent line-up of renowned Moroccan and Israeli artists, including Emil Zrihan, the solo singer endowed with a remarkably powerful countertenor voice. Another artist at the concert is Abderrahim Souiri, one of the main supporters of Arab-Andalusian music, a musical genre that he modernized and popularized. They will be joined by Abir El Abed, the Tangier singer known for her Arab-Judeo-Andalusian style.
The event is a collaboration between the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and the Moroccan Association of Andalusian Music. The concerts will be under the leadership of Grand Maestro Mohamed Briouel.
The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod had already performed at the Atlantic Andalusian Festival of Essaouira in 2018 and 2019.
Since the cooperation between Morocco and Israel was reinvigorated in 2020, the two countries have intensified their economic, commercial, and cultural relations.