Music: Manar

This Moroccan sextet plays various musical styles, including ritual sufi music with African influences, performed on traditional percussion instruments.

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Date and time Saturday 17 January 2009 21:10 tot 22:00 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

The Moroccan sextet Manar bring both lively, traditional music from south Morocco, called dekka el marrakchia (percussion from Marrakech) and ritual sufi music, in which African rhythms play an important role. With their enthusiastic performance, they managed to get the Small Hall of Theater aan het Spui to swing on stage.

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Manar

takes the audience to the markets of Marrakech where merchants, their business having been finished, get their drums out and improvise songs and raps about love and life. This traditional music, called Dekka el Marrakchia (literally: percussion from Marrakech) arose in towns like Taroudant and Ouarzate and was taken by traders to the economic heart of South Morocco, Marrakech. Manar's six members heard this music during their childhood in Morocco and introduced it in the Netherlands. In addition, Manar plays gnawa: sweeping ritual sufi music of the offspring of former slaves from West Africa, who had ended up in Morocco.
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