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From 18-21 November 2026, Rabat welcomes the 13th edition of Visa For Music, the first festival and music market in Africa and the Middle East. Mory Touré The Commission will be in the process ofOfficial Ambassador of Visa For Music for Mali, and as first Festival Explorer official Festival TV , came to tell the interior appointment.
Next destination: Visa For Music , Rabat (Morocco), 18-21 November 2026. Images: Mory Touré · Festival Explorer .
In the morning, we sign tours around a café; in the evening, we discover on stage the voices of tomorrow. Created in 2014, at the initiative of the cultural engineering structure ANYA Culture and Association Atlas Azawan, Visa For Music is the First Festival and Music Market in Africa and the Middle EastEvery year in November, for four days, Rabat becomes the professional capital of these musics: Showcases on stage, professional forum, conferences and meetings between artists, programmers, producers and tour operators from all over the world — more than 1,500 professionals from over 50 countries.
Programming 2026, unveiled on October 15, 2026, holds more than 35 artistic projects, selected from more than 900 applications from more than 90 countriesMorocco: Meryem Aboulouafa, Jbiina, Onzy Jazzbar, R2D, Sufiane AZ and YVZID, and Gnawatronic — the meeting of Omary and Maâlma Hind Ennaira, where the gnaoua trance flirts with the electro. International side: Enzo Avitabile & I Bottari (Italy), Erol Joshua (Haiti), Bruna Alimonda (Brazil), Mariaa Siga (Senegal), Yugen Blakrok (South Africa), Kazdura, Moonshine, Olivia Khoury and Tarug.
It's a market, but it's a party first: four days when music from Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas meet, show up and sign. Exactly the ground of a Festival Explorer.
Mory Touré is one of the world's largest festival explorers. He has been visiting festivals around the world for more than 30 years and is at the heart of Mali's culture. In Rabat, he will wear his two hats: that ofOfficial Ambassador of Visa For Music for Mali — the festival presents it itself in its official visual — and that of first Festival Explorer official Festival TV.
Its mission, on the spot: to follow the Showcases and Professional meetings, to achieve the Interviews of artists and market players, and to capture the behind the scenes The meeting — the atmosphere, the signatures, the discoveries. His images and interviews will feed the antenna of Festival TV, the JT of the Festivals and issue Festival Explorer.
A journalist based in Bamako, formerly a correspondent in Mali of "Colours Tropicales" (RFI) and animator of Radio Afrika, he knows this market from the inside: Visa For Music is one of the routes that he travels, season after season, in the service of the music of the continent.
From November 18 to 21, 2026, follow Visa For Music's coverage of Mory Touré on Festival TV: reports, interviews and behind the scenes will arrive on this page and on the air as he goes through his days in Rabat.
Page verified on October 25, 2026 — dates, place and edition confirmed on the official website of the festival (visaformusic.com): 13th edition, Rabat, November 18-21, 2026. Role of official ambassador for Mali: official visual of Visa For Music.