THE SAHARAWI SINGER, MARIAM HASSAN, IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL

The famous saharawi singer, Mariam Hasssan, offered this week-end a great concert in the heart of the british capital, London.

The Mariam Hassan´s voice, one of the most famouse singers in Western Sahara, vibrated in Ingland, high and clear in front of thousands of spectators in the open air stage of Wodmad (World Musical Festival) celebrated this year in the United Kigdom.

The public was astonished and invaded by the deeply rooted voice of the Saharawi singer, coming from Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa.

The BBC recorded the entire concert and transmitted at night the interview of Mariem Hassan by Lucy Duran with three songs of the concert.

The famous british newspaper The Independent wrote in their first feature of the festival on 25th of July about Mariem Hassan:The early highlight is Mariem Hassan.

She plays a version of the Saharan Blues popularised by Tinariwen, the result of rebel fighters in refugee camps plugging into Led Zeppelin, and their Mississippi sources.

Black-robed Mariem Hassan is a spokeswoman for the rebel nomad tribes of Western Sahara, easy to believe as her rapid ululations drill through the air. You can only imagine the cultural and political barriers she brazens through daily. Dirty rhythmic lead guitar helps the job here. Nor are potent resistance songs her only talent. As we’re cheerily informed" Mariem will be cooking later at the Taste the World tent." Of course.

On 29th of July Mariem Hassan will be performing also in the spanish northern city of Tafalla. On the 31st of July the documental "The Voice of the Sahara" will be shown at MUMES Festival in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) and on the 1st of August, Mariem at MUMES presents ‘en la JAIMA’(authentic nomad tent) music, dance and poetry from Western Sahara presenting some songs of her soon out coming new CDWestern Sahara, the last colony in the african continent.Africa.