Kolea Festival part of AMU official calendar

TIPASA (Algeria)- the Maghreb Cultural Festival of Andalusian Music of Kolea has been included in the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) official calendar of activities, Benblidia Abdelhamid Commissioner of the festival, which kicked off, announced Monday night.

Thanks to the success of the first edition in April, THE integration of Kolea festival in the AMU, program is, beyond pride, one more challenge to raise, said Benblidia, recalling that the presence of the public is of a paramount importance in such events. Representative of the Minister of Culture Noureddine Lardjane recalled that in recent years Algeria has begun an ambitious program of cultural rehabilitation and this, by the formalization more than 150 festivals in addition to major cultural events such as ”Algiers t capital of Arab culture,” ”the Pan-African festival” and” Tlemcen capital of Islamic culture in 2011.”