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Tarek Atoui and the Majlis of musicians from the Atlas Mountains
March 04, 20258:30 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
8:30 p.m.
6 euros: general tickets at the box office.
5 euros if purchased online. Tickets sold on this website up to the day
of the event at 2:00 p.m., or until sold out. Those tickets which have
not been sold online will be sold as of one hour before the event at the
entrance to Casa Árabe’s premises (in cash or by credit card) for the
price of 6 euros (5 euros for officially unemployed persons, students of
Casa Árabe’s Language Center and Youth Card holders. You must
demonstrate this status by showing the proper document in order to
receive the discount). Assigned seating with tickets.
Amongst the activities being held to celebrate the month of Ramadan,
Casa Árabe is hosting this concert in Madrid, in a “master class” format
on Tuesday, March 4. Buy your ticket now so you don’t miss out.
The activity has been organized with the cooperation of the TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation, within the framework of its exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
At-Tāriq, a journey into the rural music traditions of North Africa and the Arab world. At-Tāriq means “he who comes from the night” or “the morning star.” It forms part of a long-term research project led by Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui, on the rural music traditions of the Arab world along sub-Saharan pilgrimage and trade routes.
In At-Tāriq, music plays the starring role and becomes an act of nomadic hospitality in and of itself, in which we travel through the traditional and the contemporary, the familiar and the unfamiliar.
The first stop by Atoui in his field research is the North African territories inhabited by the Amazigh or Berber people, a source and repository of musical, artistic, artisanal and intellectual traditions. After two years of carrying out exchanges with musicians and craftsmen from the Moroccan Atlas region and other nearby areas, the artist is now presenting a space of “poetic hospitality” formed around the “majlis,” a place that welcomes, receives and resonates, while generating a multiplicity of affinities and experiences.
The event will be taking place at 8:30 p.m., after the iftar meal, or breaking of the Ramadan fast. It will feature the participation of Fatima El Habibi, Mohamed El Malyani, Mohamed El Kartaoui, Said Ait Lhaj, Fadoua Ennouri, Lahcen Amarrak, Ijja Id Haddou, Aicha Boukhris, Ahmed Ichou and Abdelhak Yacoub, accompanied by Tarek Atoui
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Tarek Atoui: Forgotten Tales Through Time, Monde des Arts de la Parure, Marrakech, January 31, 2025. Photography: Driss Sadok.