Jamaaladeen Tacuma's Baba Oud at Gnaoua World Music Festival

Gnaoua World Music Festival , Essaouira, Morocco

The legendary Gnaoua World Music Festival is a Gnawa music festival held annually in Essaouira, Morocco.

The festival provides a platform for exchanges and a meeting point of music and dialogue between foreign artists and the mystical Gnaoua (also Gnawa) musicians. In this melting-pot of musical fusion, the Gnaoua masters invite players of jazz, pop, rock and contemporary World music to explore new avenues. The festivals see up to 500,000 visitors every year over four days, many of the performances can be viewed for free, which complicates comparison with other festivals.

I am incredibly humbled and honored to be invited to bring my band Baba Oud for the 19th Edition 2016 festival.

This will be a world debut of this special project. Lineup :

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass Wolfgang Puschnig- saxophone, flute, hojak Ahmad Compaore-drums King Britt- Electronics Joined by the Gnaoua masters.

This will be a monumental collaboration in my musical life. Hope to see you there.