Hind Ennaira & Band (live @Wonderfeel 2024)

Hind Ennaira dominates today’s Gnawa music scene, an ancient music tradition of Black African slaves in Morocco. Hind Ennaira was born in Essaouira (Morocco), the cradle of Gnawa art, Afro-Moroccan and desert blues. At a very young age she immersed herself in this special music genre, a world that initially seemed to be accessible only to men.

Maalema Hind Ennaira – vocals & guenbri, Ahmed Labnoua – qraqeb,Bas Gaakeer – guitar, Rachid Khelifi – percussion

00:00 Sudani ya yemma (traditional)
10:20 Lala Aicha (traditional) (Arrangements by: Hind Ennaira, Wissal Aziz, Bas Gaakeer, Ahmed Labnoua,

Through her guembri playing, she proves to the world that this traditional music also belongs to women. She created her own band and flourished into one of the maâlems who sell out halls. Originally Gnawa music was closely related to the Sufi tradition and Hind radically pulls it toward the modern age with African, Berber, and Arabian influences – with hints of rock and jazz, too.

Editors: Melchior Huurdeman, Aad van Nieuwkerk, Sakti Khedoe
Camera & lighting: Ramon de Boer, Jan Rein Heitinga, Marjolein Hoitinga
Sound: Marc Broer, Philip ten Brink
Producer: Jorinde Hiddema/Pippa Harris
Director/Editing Reinier Bruijne

This video was recorded at Wonderfeel festival 2024 for Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO. 

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