The Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music organizes the 8 to 10 December 2014 an international symposium on the theme "musical traditions in North Africa."

The Centre of Arab and Mediterranean Music and the « Makamet » association organize a musical performance that pays tribute to the great master of Tunisian Music, Salah el Mahdi, on Saturday November 22nd, 2014 at 8PM (20:00) at the Ennejma Ezzahra palace, with the contribution of Sofien Zaidi, Rihab Sghaier and Asma Ben Ahmed.

Mounir Troudi’s musical career is punctuated with several collaborations with figures of the international musical scene, such as the Italian Antonio Maiello, the Turkish Mercan Dédé, the Tunisian SKNDR and the Canadian Erik Truffaz. They have, one by one, enriched his career. However, he never dissociated himself from a musical heritage that marked his early stages : Sufi music.

Dancer, choreographer, musician, composer, singer, Raghunath Manet is all at the same time. Spiritual son of Ram Gopal, Raghunath is considered as one of the greatest Indian artists. He is renowned for innovating and introducing for the first time the notion of choreography in the bharata-natyam, a style of classical dance of South India, usually a solo practice.

Marked by the ancestral culture of the mandika hunters, Abou Diarra is a kamale ngoni (Malian sitar) player whose career could be considered strange and unusual. Trained by a visually impaired virtuoso master he knew for seven years, he had walked, for several months, the roads between Abidjan and Bamaka… on foot, accompanied only by his instrument.

Native of the Andalusian land, Luis de la Carrasca never forgot his origins. It is his roots that the singer celebrated in this show, created to pay tribute to the most renowned artitits of his natal Grenade : Maude de Falla, Federico García Lorca, Mario Maya, Enrique Morente, and the Habichuela family.