Asmaa Hamzaoui & Berber Diffusion (Live)

The Post Bar, Rhythm Passport & Simo Lagnawi present a night of North African rhythms and Gnawan folklore.

We’re delighted to welcome the foremost female ambasador of Gnawa music Asmaa Hamzaoui to headline the night, performing for the first time with her sister in the UK with a mesmerising brand of spiritual desert blues.

Gnawa music goes back in time when this population was held as slaves and it revolved around storytelling transmuting their suffering. The music is about the spirit world, about life in Africa, about how we should live in harmony with nature and the consequences we face if we abuse nature.

Barely 20 years old, Asmaa Hamzaoui became the leader of the Bnat Tombouctou (Daughters of Timbuktu) group, and one of the youngest and very rare female ambassadors of Gnawa culture. She inherited her passion from her father, the renowned Maâlem Rachid Hamzaoui. From her earliest age,…