#Chronique_culture du 28-05-24 - 28/05/2024
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00:46Welcome to Mediën TV.
00:48Dear viewers, you are now listening to the British star
00:51James Blunt, who will be performing in Morocco
00:54on June 7th at the Casa Anfa Festival
00:58in Casablanca, between June 6th and 8th.
01:01James Blunt, but also UB40, Zoukero, Coco, Rocco, Kaleo,
01:07Satiwi, Leila Sara, Ismael and several other artists.
01:12As always, the party is at the Casablanca.
01:16We are joined by Moulay Ahmed Laalami,
01:20who is the president of the festival.
01:23Moulay Ahmed, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.
01:27I just want to tell you that this is the last straight line.
01:30How is this 17th edition of Casablanca being prepared?
01:35Hello William, hello dear viewers.
01:38It's a pleasure to be on Mediën TV.
01:42As every year, I was going to say,
01:45now it becomes an appointment, like Casablanca.
01:48Listen, it's always the last week,
01:51just before the preparations.
01:53We are in the last straight line of preparations,
01:56a year of work for the delivery.
01:59There is a lot of excitement.
02:01We are almost full at Anfa Park.
02:04In a few days, there will be no more tickets.
02:07It looks like the beginning of a joyful summer in Casablanca.
02:16As I was saying, James Blunt, UB40, Zoukero,
02:22so much diversity.
02:24How do you prepare such a panoply of artists
02:28who, of course, accept to come and play in Morocco?
02:33The artistic direction of the festival is very clear,
02:36at least for us.
02:38It has three orientations.
02:41The first is the one,
02:44and we will have the pleasure of being on the esplanade
02:47of the Grand Théâtre de Casablanca this year,
02:50for the scene Nouveau Souffle.
02:52This scene is a scene of young Moroccan talent
02:55that we highlight each year during the festival.
02:58It's a free scene of the festival.
03:01It's the promotion of young people
03:03for the benefit of young people in Casablanca.
03:05The second orientation is this scene
03:07that you are showing at the moment,
03:09scene 21.
03:10It's the small scene of the festival,
03:13but which is so intimate
03:15and which is part of the identity of the festival
03:17because it's the jazz scene.
03:18It's a scene where we offer contemporary jazz,
03:21very open-minded.
03:23We are not in intellectual jazz.
03:28We are in an open-minded jazz,
03:30open to influences,
03:31a bit like Casablanca.
03:33The festival starts at Anfa Park
03:37with this jazz scene from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
03:42and this year we will open on Saturday
03:46a little earlier with two young Moroccan talents,
03:50Sarah Ismail,
03:52who are not very jazz,
03:55but with a sensibility that we liked a lot,
03:58that we couldn't put on the scene of young talents,
04:00but that we absolutely wanted to present to the public.
04:02So sometimes we do entorces,
04:04but we assume these entorces.
04:06Then you have the big scene of the festival
04:08behind these beautiful buildings of Anfa Park
04:10that put Casablanca in this modernity
04:13and which is a very open scene
04:15with a lot of musical styles,
04:17rather festive.
04:19You have UB40, Paolo Notini,
04:22but you also have creations
04:24with the young talented Melma Indeneira
04:28with Candide Olfer,
04:29who will be one of the highlights of the festival.
04:31You will also have James Blunt,
04:34who is perhaps the international poster,
04:36but also the pop-rock scene
04:38with Kaleo,
04:40who is really one of the very great future
04:43of the pop-rock scene,
04:45and obviously the legend Zoukero,
04:47who comes to Morocco for the first time.
04:49So we are very proud of that.
04:51We position ourselves in Africa
04:53as one of the great festivals in Africa.
04:55Before we continue,
04:56I would like us to listen together
04:58to this excerpt from one of the artists
05:00who will be present.
05:02We discover them together.
05:03We listen.
05:22UB40 will be in Casablanca
05:24to celebrate their 45th anniversary
05:26of music, of beautiful music.
05:28What can you tell us,
05:30Moula Ahmed Alhami,
05:32President of the Casablanca Festival,
05:34about this group,
05:36which then chose,
05:38preferred,
05:40to celebrate its 45th anniversary
05:42in Casablanca?
05:44Thank you very much.
05:46Thank you very much.
05:48What can you tell us,
05:50Moula Ahmed Alhami,
05:52President of the Casablanca Festival,
05:54which then chose,
05:56preferred,
05:58to celebrate its 45th anniversary
06:00in Casablanca?
06:02Well, listen,
06:04it's an honour for us
06:06because it's part of the rhythms
06:08with which we grew up,
06:10us old people,
06:12now that we are over 45 too.
06:14It was the group's 45th anniversary.
06:17There are a lot of things,
06:19a lot of rhythms.
06:21It's very eclectic.
06:23It really touches a lot of people
06:25from our generation and more.
06:27And that's the strength of the festival,
06:29to welcome these multigenerations.
06:31It's a really intergenerational festival.
06:33You will have young people
06:35who will follow the pop of Paolo Nuttini
06:37and the rock pop of Kaleo
06:39and who will also appreciate
06:41these artists from another generation
06:43but who last over time.
06:46And that's the magic of the festival,
06:48to welcome these different audiences.
06:52So maybe one last question,
06:54Moulah Ahmed Al-Alami.
06:56What exactly makes
06:58the diversity of Casablanca?
07:00It's true that the word jazz is there,
07:02but precisely the success
07:04and the success
07:06of this festival
07:08that doesn't disappear.
07:10We saw on the websites,
07:12you had a lot of sold-out,
07:14a lot of experiences
07:16that make people very happy
07:18because there is a festive spirit,
07:20there is a particular atmosphere
07:22in Casablanca.
07:24Is it precisely the diversity
07:26of your artistic choice
07:28that makes this festival
07:30have its own secret?
07:32I think you said everything.
07:34In Casablanca,
07:36we have a lot of different experiences.
07:38The festival experience
07:40is very important for us
07:42because we are in a large-scale festival
07:44where the festival experience
07:46can be reduced.
07:50Here we have the possibility,
07:52we are at a festival
07:54where there are 8,000 people per day
07:56in Casablanca,
07:58obviously more on the public stage.
08:00And on this part in Casablanca,
08:02we work on all the details
08:04to make people live
08:06in the best possible way
08:08these 5 or 6 hours
08:10to live this particular atmosphere
08:12where people are elsewhere.
08:16It is another Casablanca
08:18that unfolds for three days.
08:20And that's also why we took the initiative
08:22to duplicate this experience
08:24in Casa Latina and Elif,
08:26still in FAPARC.
08:28Thank you very much,
08:30Omelet Ahmed El Halami,
08:32for responding to our invitation.
08:34I remind you that you are the president
08:36of the Casablanca Festival
08:38and that its 17th edition
08:40takes place from June 6 to 8
08:42in Casablanca.
08:44Thank you very much
08:46for accepting our invitation.
08:48And thank you, dear viewers,
08:50for your loyalty.
08:52Stay with us.
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