Relizane Folklore Festival in Relizane
A folklore festival in Relizane, an agricultural province along the Mina and Cheliff river valleys in western Algeria, showcasing traditional music, dance, craft and regional custom from a rural farming community positioned between the larger cities of Oran and Chlef in the country's fertile west.
Relizane sits in Algeria's western agricultural heartland, a province built on the fertile plains along the Mina and Cheliff river valleys, and its folklore festival draws on the mix of rural farming communities and small-town traditions that characterize this less internationally documented corner of northwestern Algeria.