by Geoff | Feb 2, 2020 | Art, Essaouira, Morocco, Music, Sufi
It is with enormous pleasure that I am able to document a group of women playing music in Essaouira. The Haddarates Souiriyattes practice regularly at La Recontre cafe which is next door to where I have resided. The chanting and drumming of Sufi music has...
by Geoff | Feb 1, 2020 | Essaouira, Gnaoua, Morocco, Northern Africa, Zaouia
I had tried on three previous occasions to visit Sidna Blal, the zaouia des Gnawa, but the formidable woman who seemed to live there steadfastly refused all my entreaties to enter. Today I visited with this woman’s son, Youssef, a guimbri player training to...
by Geoff | Dec 3, 2019 | Gnaoua, Marabout, Morocco, Shrine, Sufi, Zaouia
Article taken from here Entering the Sufi Spiritual World of North Africa Sufi Brotherhoods and Trance Ceremonies in the Maghreb This zawiya is in Souk Ahras in East of Algeria, sometimes people call the zawiya a marabout – they really mean the saint....
