« Casa Music » Festival : From July 17th to 20th in Casablanca
A bunch of national, arab and international stars will be part of the 4th Festival of Casablanca, “Casa Music”, which will be held from 17 till 20 July of this year.
This multidisciplinary cultural meeting, which is meant to be an opportunity to develop more dialogue between the citizen and art and re-visit the history and legends of Casablanca, will be animated by a group of stars among which the Lebanese Myriam Fares, the Nigerian Seun Kuti, and the Lebanese rap singer Rayess Bek. Even Saida Charaf and Barry, announced the organizers, on Monday in Casablanca during a press conference.
“Casa Music” presents a program of different music types going from classical song with Hayat Idrissi and Ahmed Alaoui, to chaâbi bidaoui with Mustapha Bourgogne, Daoudi and the Tagada group, passing by several modern music groups such as Fnaïre and H-Kayne.
Big international and Arab artists will be part of the Casablanca’s evenings, among them: Cheb Najim, Houari Dauphin, Jimmy Ouahid (Algeria), King Barra (Senegal), Southside Johnny (USA) and Sin Papeles (Spain).
About 400 artists will present more than 60 concerts, divided on 12 open-air stages, 8 others for music and 4 dedicated to breakdance, besides a caravan of animation.
These concerts will take place at Al Hank, Sidi Bernoussi, Place Rachidi, Ben M’ Sick to which are added this year Ben Abid (Nouceur), Tit Mellil (Médiouna) and a stage in Mohammedia.
In parallel, a competition of breakdance will be organized for the young people of Casablanca.
The festival of Casablanca is organized by the Forum Casablanca Association, in partnership with the wilaya of Big Casablanca, the Council of the city, the Council of the Region and the Prefectural Council of Big Casablanca.
