World Sacred Music Festival
Association Fès-Saïss, Sidi El Khayat, Fès-Médina, 30200
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If you want a festival that does more than bash your ears and muddle your senses, go to Morocco in June. The World Sacred Music Festival is only 12 years old but already has a lofty reputation. It takes place in Fez – a holy city with a reputation for tolerance going back at least to the ninth century AD and, at least in the past, a heaving happy throng of Jew, Arab, Christian and European. You can watch Sufi chanting in the old Medina, hear baroque medieval music, soar with the spirituals, and every night join the 5,000 that throng the courtyard behind the enormous city gates to watch the main act.
A forum runs alongside the music, including such diverse speakers as the World Bank and strict religious scholars – the aim being to promote tolerance and understanding between cultures. "For 10 days each year, Fez is transformed, and so are the people who visit," says Faouzi Skali, the brains behind the festival "If it can work for 10 days in Fez, why not for a year? If it can work in Fez, why not in Jerusalem?" Be there, and be part of it.
A forum runs alongside the music, including such diverse speakers as the World Bank and strict religious scholars – the aim being to promote tolerance and understanding between cultures. "For 10 days each year, Fez is transformed, and so are the people who visit," says Faouzi Skali, the brains behind the festival "If it can work for 10 days in Fez, why not for a year? If it can work in Fez, why not in Jerusalem?" Be there, and be part of it.
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