Saves The Day

A Moroccan Independence Day celebration at Hootananny Brixton, a concert and performance venue in Brixton, built around Gnawa and other Moroccan musical traditions. Simo Lagnawi & Gnawa London top the bill.

The evening marks Moroccan Independence Day with live music drawn from Morocco's musical heritage. Simo Lagnawi & Gnawa London are the headline act. Simo Lagnawi, who was born in Morocco and is now based in London, plays the guembri, the three-stringed bass at the core of Gnawa music.

The performance combines rhythmic grooves, sung vocals and call-and-response chanting with percussion, drawing on long-established North African traditions while giving them a contemporary delivery. The programme is framed as a celebration of the country's independence, its heritage and its musical identity.

The venue, Hootananny Brixton, is a concert and performance space in Brixton. Saves the Day, the American emo band formed in Princeton in 1997 and signed to Equal Vision Records, is also named among the artists linked to this evening. Its debut album, Can't Slow Down, appeared in 1998.