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It is a rare sight: in Jalasat Rouhiya (‘Spiritual Session’) the women of the hadra choir of Chefchaouen will be on stage together with the men and women of Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra and Orchestre Temsamani from Tétouan. They will sing and play new music together that is based on the traditionally exclusively female hadratradition and the Arabo-Andalusian repertoire. One of the compositions is specially written for this combination by maestro Mohamed Amin El Akrami. It is a concert for young and old: the mystical, spiritual sound of a hadra session infused with the rousing sounds and rhythms of an Arabo-Andalusian orchestra.