An Early Arrival

By Jaishri Srinivasan

Long haul flights are my specialty; I have been crisscrossing the world since I was a teenager. I am heading there earlier than the rest of the cohort. The draw for me is the Gnaoua World Music Festival that is happening in Essaouira, Morocco. Wikipedia sources reveal the Gnawa/Gnaoua as a mystical sect of musicians and the World Music Festival is a meeting of the minds, arts and talent and most of all – spirit – between foreign artists and the Gnaoua musicians.
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