Mawazine
Stages OLM Souissi Nahda Bouragrag Salé La Renaissance Chellah Théatre Mohammed V
Friday 29 May Jennifer Lopez Khalid Hajar / Ghazi El Amir / Saad Sattar Temenik Electric Bawss & Soultana / Khawla El Moujahed / Khansa Batma / Oum TBA TBA TBA
Saturday 30 May Pharrell Williams Assala Yuri Buenaventura Nidal Ibourk / Moataz Abou Zouz / Aziz Al Maghribi / Mohamed Adly / Orchestre Ashjan Al Awetar TBA Srishti - Nina Rajarani / Dance Creations Nihad Fathi / Orchestre Hafni
Sunday 31 May Sean Paul Amal Maher P-Square Najat Al Houceimiya / Imghrane / Mustapha Oumguil TBA Débora Russ Magida El Roumi
Monday 1 June Avicii Maher Zain Daara J Family Melimane / Ibham Band / Issam & Abidate Rma / Essiham Malek Carmen Souza Flavia Coelho
Tuesday 2 June Placebo Elissa Black M Gnawa Stone / Gnawa Click / Lamaalam Mahmoud Guinea Les Frères & Les Fils Akkaf Maria Berasarte Barbara Hendricks
Wednesday 3 June Akon Melhem Zein Yannick Noah Babel / Rwapa Crew / Hassan Al Maghribi / Farid Ghannam / Mazagan & Hamid El Hadri Haim Botbol Lo Cor De La Plana Mesut Kurtis
Thursday 4 June Sting Nabil Shuail Les Ambassadeurs Draganov / AZ Flow / Shayfeen / Chouft'Chouf / Fnaire TBA Luis De La Carrasca : Lo Essential TBA
Friday 5 June Usher Dounia Batma / Ibtissam Tiskat / Fadwa Al Malki Aziz Sahmaoui & Mamani Keita Africa United / The Basement / Cheb Simo Batoul Marouani Katerina Fotinaki Dorsaf Hamdani
Saturday 6 June Maroon 5 Wael Kfoury Metá Metá Daoudi / Tahour TBA Özlem özdil Bajeddoub / Abderrahim Souiri / Orchestre Debbi
2015
This year 's edition of Mawazine Festival is set to new records of attendance . 160,000 people attended the concert of American singer Jennifer Lopez at the opening of the festival , and 180,000 people attended Pharrell Williams concert on Saturday , May 30 . The concert of DJ Avicii attracted over 200,000 festival-goers , on Monday , June 1 at the OLM Soussi stage of Rabat , as part of the 14th Mawazine Festival-Rhythms of the World , according to the organizers . [ 30 ] Setlist : Jennifer Lopez ( 29 May 2015 ) `` Booty '' `` Love Do n't Cost A Thing '' Medley : `` Ai n't It Funny ( Murder Remix ) '' `` All I Have '' `` I 'm Real ( Murder Remix ) '' `` Get Right '' `` Girls '' / `` If You Had My Love '' ( Dancing act by Jennifer Lopez ) `` I 'm Into You '' `` Waiting For Tonight '' `` Feel The Light '' `` First Love '' `` Do It Well '' `` Hold It Do n't Drop It '' ( including elements of `` Goin ' In '' & `` Papi '' ) `` Let 's Get Loud '' `` Dance Again '' `` On The Floor '' `` Jenny From The Block '' ( including elements of `` Same Girl '' ) Setlist : Pharrell Williams ( 30 May 2015 ) `` Come Get It Bae '' `` Frontin ' '' `` Hunter '' `` Marilyn Monroe '' `` Brand New '' Medley : `` Hot In Herre '' ( Nelly cover ) `` I Just Wan na Love U ( Give It 2 Me ) '' Jay Z cover ) `` Pass the Courvoisier , Part II '' ( Busta Rhymes cover ) `` Gush '' `` Rockstar '' `` Lapdance '' `` She Wants to Move '' `` Beautiful '' / `` Drop It Like It 's Hot '' ( Snoop Dogg cover ) `` It Girl '' `` Hollaback Girl '' ( Gwen Stefani cover ) `` Blurred Lines '' ( Robin Thicke cover ) `` Get Lucky '' ( Daft Punk cover ) `` Lose Yourself to Dance '' ( Daft Punk cover ) `` Gust of Wind '' `` Happy '' Setlist : Sean Paul ( 31 May 2015 ) Intro ( Including `` Culo '' , `` The Final Countdown '' & `` Animals '' ) `` Come On To Me '' `` Get Busy '' `` Give It Up To Me '' `` Got 2 Luv U '' `` How Deep Is Your Love '' `` Baby Boy '' ( Beyoncé song ) `` Bailando '' ( Enrique Iglesias song ) `` One Wine '' `` Hey Baby '' `` Infiltrate '' `` Deport Them '' `` Like Glue '' `` Gim me The Light '' `` We Be Burnin ' '' `` Riot '' `` I 'm Still In Love With You '' `` Punkie '' `` No Woman No Cry '' ( Bob Marley & The Wailers cover ) `` Never Gon na Be The Same '' `` Hold My Hand '' `` Other Side Of Love '' `` Lowe Me '' `` Living The Dream '' `` Take It Low '' `` Want Dem All '' `` She Does n't Mind '' `` Temperature '' `` Turn It Up '' Setlist : Avicii ( 1 June 2015 ) `` Love Me Again '' ( John Newman song ) `` Snake '' ( Blasterjaxx song ) `` Addicted To You '' `` Heaven '' `` My Feelings For You '' `` Make Your Move '' ( Dave Amstrong song ) `` Echoes '' ( Henrik B , Niklas Gustavsson & Peter Johansson song ) `` You Make Me '' `` The Nights '' `` All You Need Is Love '' `` The Tracks Of My Tears '' ( The Miracles song ) `` Utopia '' `` Animals '' ( Martin Garrix song ) `` Smile '' ( Galantis song ) `` Superlove '' ( Lenny Kravitz song ) `` Fade Into The Darkness '' `` Maple '' ( Wasteland song ) `` Rapture '' ( Nadia Ali song ) `` Blessed '' ( Tom Hangs & Shermanology song ) `` XXX '' ( Phunk Investigation song ) `` Alcoholic '' `` Tear It Down '' ( The Aston Shuffle song ) `` Sunshine '' `` Spectrum ( Say My Name ) '' ( Florance + The Machine song ) `` Seek Bromance '' `` Dear Boy '' `` The Days '' `` Return Of The Mack '' ( Mark Morrison song ) `` I Could Be The One '' `` Love Looks '' ( Style of Eye & Lars Allertz song ) `` White Noise '' ( Disclosure song ) `` Lovers On The Sun '' ( David Guetta song ) `` Silhouettes '' `` Hey Brother '' `` Levels '' `` Waiting For Love '' `` On My Way '' ( Axwell /\ Ingrosso song ) `` Coming Home '' ( Diddy – Dirty Money song ) `` Flash '' ( Green Velvet song ) `` Deep Down Low '' ( Valentino Khan song ) `` Punx '' ( Tristan Garner song ) `` Kangaroo '' ( Sander Van Doorn & Julian Jordan song ) `` Antidote '' ( Swedish House Mafia & Knife Party song ) `` Greyhound '' ( Swedish House Mafia song ) `` Zeus '' ( John Dahlback song ) `` Hypnotize '' ( The Notorious B.I.G . song ) `` Wakanda '' ( Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike song ) `` Power Glove '' ( Knife Party song ) `` EDM Death Machine '' ( Knife Party song ) `` Wake Me Up '' Setlist : AKON ( 3 June 2015 ) `` Shake Down '' `` We Takin ' Over '' ( DJ Khaled song ) `` I 'm So Paid '' `` Soul Survivor '' ( Young Jeezy song ) `` Ghetto '' `` Sorry , Blame It On Me '' `` Lonely '' `` Sweetest Girl ( Dollar Bill ) '' ( Wyclef Jean song ) `` I Love The Way She Moves '' ( Zion song ) `` Do n't Matter '' `` Danza Kuduro '' ( Don Omar & Lucenzo cover ) `` Oh Africa '' `` Mama Africa '' `` I Ca n't Wait '' `` Against The Grain '' `` Bartender '' ( T-Pain song ) `` I Wan na Love You '' `` Smack That '' `` I Just Had Sex '' ( The Lonely Island song ) `` Dangerous '' ( Kardinal Offishall song ) `` Chop My Money '' ( P-Square song ) `` Right Now ( Na Na Na ) '' `` Angel '' `` Keep You Much Longer '' DJing Session : `` Habits ( Stay High ) '' ( Tove Lo song ) `` Papaoutai '' ( Stromae song ) `` Am I Wrong '' ( Nico & Vinz song ) `` Crunk It Up '' ( David Guetta song ) `` Shut It Down '' ( Pitbull song ) `` Beautiful '' `` Sexy Bitch '' ( David Guetta song ) `` Play Hard '' ( David Guetta song ) `` Millionaire Dance '' `` Freedom '' Setlist : Usher ( 5 June 2015 ) `` OMG '' `` Love In This Club '' `` You Make Me Wan na ... '' `` Nice & Slow '' `` U Remind Me '' `` Caught Up '' `` She Came To Give It To You '' `` Climax '' `` Confessions Part II '' Medley : `` Hey Daddy ( Daddy 's Home ) '' `` My Boo '' `` I Need A Girl '' ( P. Diddy song ) `` Lovers And Friends '' ( Lil Jon song ) `` New Flame '' ( Chris Brown song ) `` I Do n't Mind '' `` Do n't Look Down '' / `` Animals '' ( `` Martin Garrix '' song medley ) `` More '' ( RedOne & Jimmy Joker Remix ) `` Burn '' `` U Got It Bad '' `` Bad Girl '' `` Good Kisser '' `` U Do n't Have To Call '' `` Scream '' `` DJ Got Us Fallin ' In Love '' `` Yeah ! '' `` Without You '' ( David Guetta song )
Mawazine (, meaning rhythms of the world) is a Moroccan International music festival held annually in Rabat, Morocco, featuring many international and local music artists. The festival is presided over by Mounir Majidi, the personal secretary of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI and founder and president of Maroc Culture, the cultural foundation that organizes Mawazine and other events. The 2013 festival was attended by an estimated 2.5 million people, making Mawazine the largest festival in the world after Donauinselfest in Vienna. With 90 acts on 7 stages it has the highest ratio of attendees per stage in the world. Mawazine is one of several events which are intended to promote an image of Morocco as a tolerant nation, and a post on the event's website declares that the goal of the festival is to promote Rabat as a city open to the world. It has nonetheless sparked controversy, and some Moroccan politicians have criticised the event for encouraging immoral behaviour, as well as critiquing its purported financing by Moroccan state-owned companies or private companies whose only client is the Moroccan state. Artists such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, Charles Aznavour, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Ricky Martin, Pharrell Williams, Iggy Azalea, Wiz Khalifa, Pitbull, Kanye West, Scorpions, La Fouine, Maître Gims, Damso, Booba, French Montana, Usher, Avicii, Akon, David Guetta, DJ Snake, Hardwell, Placebo, The Chainsmokers, Maroon 5, The Jacksons, Sugababes, Chic, Evanescence, Chris Brown, Luis Fonsi, Bruno Mars, Nick Jonas, Stromae, Jason Derulo, Juanes, Lenny Kravitz, The Weeknd, Kylie Minogue, Demi Lovato, Ellie Goulding, Sting, Julio Iglesias, Ennio Morricone, Robert Plant, Cat Stevens, B.B. King, Susana Baca, Carlos Santana, Elton John and Deep Purple have performed at Mawazine.