Influences
Agadir : Timitar Opens the African Season
Timitar launched its 20th edition in a popular and festive atmosphere in Agadir. Across two stages, Amazigh music and African voices brought together a large crowd.
From the very first notes, Agadir rediscovered that collective emotion that only music can create. On Wednesday evening, Al Amal Square was transformed into a vast popular agora, vibrant and densely packed, for the opening of the 20th edition of the Timitar Festival. Families, young people, visitors from elsewhere—all gathered under the same sky to celebrate twenty years of Amazigh music and African dialogue.
On stage, Ahwach Bnat Louz and Raskas by Tekchbila set the tone. The drums resonate, bodies begin to move, the crowd responds. Amazigh music, far from being frozen in time, engages in dialogue with electro and urban sounds. Then come the voices of the continent. Krys M, a rising Cameroonian force, electrifies the square. Alpha Blondy, for his part, commands respect. Forty years of career and still that ability to bring people together, to make Agadir sing as one voice. Fatima Tabaamrant, an icon of the Souss, brings another intensity: that of memory, poetry, and commitment.
A few hundred meters away, the Théâtre de Verdure experiences another moment of communion. Shan’L, Isabela Novella, and Hicham Massine deliver a more intimate evening there, marked by a moving tribute to Ammouri M’barek. Two stages, two atmospheres, the same spirit: Timitar is everywhere in the city.
The turnout is massive, spontaneous, joyful. An anniversary is being celebrated, but above all a bond. Twenty years after its creation, Timitar is not just a festival. It is a collective ritual, an identity and cultural marker in a city undergoing profound change. Under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the event now stands as one of the major cultural gatherings on the continent. This Thursday evening, the Timitar stage will explore Eastern and Mediterranean influences with Wegz, Double Zuksh, Izenzaren, and Marwa Nagy and the orchestra. Also on the program are Ahwach Tata, Hicham Telmoudi, and Aza, not forgetting DJ Sound of Mint and VJ Kalamour.
Let us recall that this edition is being held in a particular context. On the eve of the Africa Cup of Nations, Agadir is already attracting attention and cameras. Timitar thus becomes the first major cultural stage of this African sequence. An artistic prelude that says much about the city’s DNA: open, hospitable, deeply rooted, and oriented toward Africa.
