Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Gnawa Nights

In Morocco, at the end of the days of dance classes, we had evening entertainments after dinner.  2 of them featured a Gnawa group.  This is a style of music that is high energy, has lots of clapping, giant clacky cymbal things, drums, and an indescribably loud percussion instrument which is actually a car wheel placed on the head and hit rhythmically with metal sticks.









If you tip them and ask nicely they will let you play their indescribably loud head car-wheel thing!  

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