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The musical evenings organized as part of the 11th edition of the “Visa For Music” festival continue for the third consecutive day at the Mohammed V National Theater in Rabat, with an audience who traveled, Friday evening, in a unique musical experience hosted by artists with sounds mixing varied rhythms and styles.
These musical performances were able to seduce and appreciate a large audience, who warmly applauded the different artists and groups who followed one another on stage.
With a powerful voice and boundless energy, the artist Sara captivated the audience as soon as she entered the stage, performing in duet with Ismail songs combining tradition and modern music, reinventing traditional Amazigh melodies and bringing musical influences. contemporary.
With their particular rhythms, Sara and Ismail ignited the audience who reacted with spontaneous dances, singing excerpts in chorus, in an exceptional festive atmosphere.
In this sense, Sara was delighted to participate for the first time in this festival, saying she was pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm of her audience.
“Visa For Music”, she said, represents a valuable opportunity to introduce the group’s works to a wide audience and to attract new fans, noting that their pair is centered on Amazigh culture, able to promote this language and this culture, through the reinterpretation of well-known songs, to make them more accessible to younger generations.
In their performance, the group presented an array of songs from their debut album “Amoudou”, including tracks like “Manako” and “Taghazout”, as well as their second album “Ayli”.
With warm sounds, combining guitar and zither, the Austro-Greek duo “Vasílis and Sophia” offered the public a performance marked by authentic melodies. The two musicians brilliantly performed their compositions, in total interaction with the audience immersed in the atmosphere of the concert. The duo offered a unique show, including pieces from their latest album “Papillon” as well as a composition entitled “Return” by Vasílis, and “Khurancan” by Sophia, a musical work that fuses African rhythms and zither.
This musical choice reflects the duo’s desire to create a rich musical experience that incorporates diverse musical influences, thus adding a distinctive touch to their performance. Their compositions were warmly received by the public who expressed their admiration, applauding them warmly.
Artists Vasílis and Sophia expressed their immense joy at participating in this experience and taking part, for the first time, in the “Visa For Music” festival, describing it as “enriching”.
In a statement to MAP, they indicated that this event represents a valuable opportunity for me to meet as many people as possible interested in the music industry and to discover a diverse music scene, particularly in Morocco, Africa and the Middle East. Orient, adding that it is a real moment of cultural sharing between artists of various nationalities.
Their music, they said, mixes several influences, taking advantage of their different musical backgrounds and their instruments of diverse origins to create a unique style.
The evening also included a performance by the Franco-Moroccan group “Oulad Leblad” who offered rhythms inspired by Moroccan and Andalusian heritage, as well as a show by the group “Helsinki Cotonou” from Finland and Benin, before the artist Julian Belbachir from Australia closes this evening.
Founded in 2014 at the initiative of the ANYA cultural agency, this event is a real crossroads for players in the music scene, offering a program adapted to music lovers as well as the curious in search of discoveries with meetings, showcases, conferences and workshops distributed in different emblematic places in the city of Rabat, all located close to each other.
