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The Beat Hotel Festival announce line-up for second Marrakech edition

Floating Points, John Talabot, Gilles Peterson and more are confirmed to play

The Beat Hotel has revealed the line-up for its four day festival in Marrakech next March.

The bill is stocked with live music and DJs, featuring a range of North African sounds and global beats. Floating Points, Charlotte Adigéry, Katie Tempest, Moulay Ahmed El Hassani and many more feature among the artists at this year’s event.

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There is an array of DJs including Life and Death's DJ Tennis, jazz stylings from Gilles Peterson and Barcelona’s house mastermind John Talabot who holds no limits when it comes to his mixing.

The music line-up also encompasses local talents such as Guedra Guedra and Casa Voyager.

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The festival also involves talks, workshops and a culinary programme featuring some of today’s great minds. Speakers include Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller who will discuss art, rave and revolution. Talks also include a Q&A with the founder of XL records Richard Russell, and an insight into a whole range of different subjects from religion to techno with Andrew Weatherall and David Keenan.

Beat Hotel festival 2020 will take place at the Fellah Hotel from March 19 to 22. To view the full line-up, check out Beat Hotel’s official website.

Kirsten Pringle is a freelance writer, follow her on Twitter

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