Essaouira Gnaoua Festival

Attracting more than half a million visitors yearly, the coastal town of Essaouira hosts another Moroccan Summer Festival to celebrate Gnaoua music. but there are also performances of modern pop, jazz and rock.

Gnaoua music is a traditional North African style which is a mix of ancient African and Sufi music, blended together to create a unique spiritual experience, said to be capable of inducing a trance state. There are ten festival sites catering to the different musical flavours.