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Dimi Mint Abba
Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba was born in 1958 into a griot family specialized in the iggawin tradition. Taking the stage name Dimi Mint Abba, Mauritania’s best known vocalist accompanies herself on the ardin, a string instrument that is similar to the West African kora. Her public career began in 1976 and, a year later, she won the Um Qalthoum competition in Tunis. In the Nineties, she began recording albums that have become references for traditional singing from this Saharan nation.
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Fez World Sacred Music special
Dimi Mint Abba
Part 1 of our one-hour study of one of North Africa’s oldest sacred music festivals. Exchanges with artistic director Gérard Kurdjian, Syrian vocalist Sabah Fakhri, Moroccan singer Mohammed Brioul, festival director Mohammed Kabbaj, Father Eli Kesrouani (Ensemble Mesopotamia) and former communications officer Mohammed Chefchaouni.
Part 2 of this three-part series on the festival based in Morocco’s former capital. We focus on the festival’s attempt to give a more popular base with free concerts every day, called the “Festival in the city”. There are comments from personalities such as journalist Kamel Redouani, musicians Saïd Messouani and Armand (the group Yallah), Sabah Fakhri again, Emil Dakov (Bulgarian Orthodox choir Sveti Ivan Rilsky)
Part 3 of a series on the 8th World Sacred Music Festival. Organisers go beyond the fortified walls of Fez to stage concerts in unlikely settings like the Roman ruins of Volubilis. Participants in the programme include Dimi Mint Abba (Mauritanian diva), Adrian Brandt (British choir Venance Fortunat), Mounsef Oudghiri (Moroccan intellectual and interpreter), Abderahim Filali (former Fez mayor)and Ahmed Zneiber (ex-festival director).
In 2002, the weekly music programme by Radio France International, World Tracks, devoted a series on the festival’s eighth edition. Little has changed in the intervening three years. In the month of the 11th edition of the World Sacred Music gathering, Mondomix re-edits the programmes, featuring some of the world’s greatest musicians of traditional music.
May 2005.
Daniel Brown
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Musique et chants de Mauritanie
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Ethnic
1992 |
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Moorish music from Mauritania
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World circuit
1990 |
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