Things to do in Morocco, Morocco: The Best Events

With over two million attendees, Mawazine is one of the largest annual music festivals in the world. The famous names headlining the festival is a major factor surrounding the hype; in addition to smaller local artists, world-renowned stars have graced its open-air stage. With the UNESCO World Heritage city of Rabat as a backdrop, Mawazine showcases a much more modern side of Morocco.

The port city of Agadir, popular with tourists year-round for its waterfront resorts, draws even larger crowds each July for its annual Timitar music festival. Timitar began as a celebration of the music and culture of Morocco’s indigenous Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group, native to North Africa and more concentrated in Morocco than anywhere else in the world. As the festival developed, it became not only a concert venue for well-known local artists but also something of a social movement; both the topics of the music and the festival-goers themselves are often highly progressive.

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The Tanjazz Festival held every summer in Tangiers has been bringing the house down since it began in the year 2000. That house, more specifically, is the landmark Italian Palace which serves as the festival’s main venue, lending its marble fountains and well-manicured gardens to the general atmosphere of Tangier as a thriving cultural centre.

Touted as an “African Woodstock” on its official website, the Essaouira Gnaoua and World Music Festival is about more than just the music. Bringing together indigenous Gnauoua musicians with renowned artists from all over the world, the festival celebrates the importance of music as a tool to preserve heritage and culture.

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