Rabat will host the Jazz au Chellah festival June 11th-15th in Rabat. Some forty artists from 14 countries will participate in the event, organised since 1996 by the European Commission Delegation to Morocco.

British Council is delighted to invite the British Artist: Paula Rae Gibson to participate in the 14th Jazz Festival.

Paula Rae Gibson is a photographer, singer and writer.

This is what critics had to say about her work:

“A trenchantly individual piece of work, No More Tiptoes is the debut CD from London-born singer, poet, photographer and filmmaker Paula Rae Gibson. Stripped down to just keyboard and voice, music-making doesn't get much more personal than this. Some of the songs almost give the impression of being improvised – ‘Busy Fairies' being a prime example – while others such as ‘I'll Always Walk Away' have a more clearly defined harmonic motion.

Pianist Tom Pilling creates a variety of atmospheric soundscapes, from rippling right-hand figurations and booming bass octaves to the merest chordal fragments, against which the singer delivers her painful and questioning soliloquies in a voice that at times is so gossamer-light it threatens to evaporate into the ether. A disc that's simultaneously disconcerting and moving." (Peter Quinn, Jazzwise)

“With a crystalline voice that switches between low confessional tones to fragile, gossamer-light highs, Gibson's acerbic wit constantly questions her (and the listener's) desires, feelings and self-image." (TIME OUT)

"A Renaissance Woman" (The Guardian)

"Paula Rae Gibson's voice, stylistically, lies somewhere between Tori Amos and Fiona Apple with dark undertones of Nico and the idiosyncrasy of Mary Margaret O'Hara." (Amazon.co.uk)