The Timeless Festival by U Radio returns to Anfa Park in Casablanca for its second edition from May 14 to 16, 2026, in a significantly expanded format that stretches the event from a single night to a three-day open-air festival. The organizers, Live Studio and U Radio, have confirmed the first three international headliners: Luis Fonsi, the Puerto Rican pop-latino icon best known globally for “Despaci to”; Busta Rhymes, the veteran American hip-hop artist; and MC Solaar, the defining voice of French-language rap. The combination of three distinct musical universes and three generations of artists sets an explicitly intergenerational and eclectic tone.
The choice to extend to three days reflects a deliberate ambition to bring the festival’s format closer to established international standards. The first edition, held in 2025, attracted more than 15,000 people and achieved a 92 percent satisfaction rate, while generating 83 million cumulative views and 608 million impressions digitally. Those metrics gave the organizers the confidence to invest in a more ambitious second edition, with reinforced production, an enlarged artistic program, and an expanded experiential footprint.
Anfa Park will be transformed into a full festival village for the three days. Beyond the main stages, the program includes a food court described as XXL featuring multiple Casablanca restaurant concepts, a chill zone with an open-air cinema, a gaming and experience zone for interactive activities, and a live U Radio studio broadcasting directly from the site. The immersive design philosophy — combining spectacular stage sets, light installations, and art environments — is intended to make the festival an experience that extends well beyond the concert moments.
The Timeless Festival’s second edition arrives at a moment when Casablanca is increasingly asserting itself as a major venue for international cultural events. The city has hosted a growing series of international music acts over the past two years, and the Timeless Festival represents one of the more structured attempts to build a recurring, branded cultural property with lasting institutional weight. The organizers have indicated that additional artists will be announced in the coming weeks, with the full line-up expected to be considerably larger than the initial three names.
The festival sits within a broader context of Morocco’s cultural economy. The country’s event sector has expanded rapidly in the post-Covid period, supported by growing domestic consumer spending, increased tourism, and an international profile that has been significantly elevated by the 2022 World Cup run, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, and the preparations for the 2030 World Cup co-organization. Cultural events of Timeless Festival’s ambition are both a product of this momentum and a contributor to it.
