Cartagena Festival
The Mar de Musicas Festival will be held in Cartagena between July 4 to 24 at a variety of venues .This festival is regarded as the place to be for art , literature , music and cinema from around the world .This year the highlighted country will be Morocco .Arab , African and European cultures will combine to provide entertainment at all levels .On July 4 it will be the Islamic musical superstar Khaled who will be performing .The rest of the festival will draw upon performers from around the world .Marianne Faithful from the UK and country and Western singer Lucinda Williams from USA.Mercedes Sosa from Argentina will be performing classics such as Gracias a la Vida .
There will be reggae singer Buju Banton , Malian singer Rokio Traore and jazz from Madelaine Peyroux .A full programme will be available in the middle of May .
In 2009 Khaled is supposed to collaborate with shakira on a new albumn .He is a internationally known Algerian singer of what is known as Rai .These songs speak of social issues and it is a type of folk music .

