During one visit to Paul Bowles' apartment, she met Bachir Attar, the hereditary leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, and they later married. Cherie Nutting is now the manager for this legendary first world music group which has recorded with many celebrated musical artists including The Rolling Stones, Ornette Coleman, Talvin Singh, Niki Skopelitis, Bill Laswell, Elliott Sharp, Slash, the Sex Pistols and other musical artists. Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka collaborated with Richard Horowitz on the music for the Bernardo Bertolucci film adaptation of Bowles' best-selling classic novel The Sheltering Sky, and the Master Musicians also recorded with The London Philharmonic Orchestra music for the film The Cell with Howard Shore in 2000. They have been the subject of various documentary films including The Rolling Stones in Morocco, produced in 1989 by BBC Television, with footage of the Stones recording in Tangier and Mick Jagger visiting the Master Musicians and Bachir Attar at his home and the musicians' guesthouse in Jajouka.

In late 2008 a new film using old footage taken in the tiny Moroccan village of Jajouka will be released: The Hand of Fatima , is about Robert Palmer, the New York Times first rock 'n' roll writer and pop music critic, making his first visit to Jajouka to meet his favorite music group, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, then led by Hadj Abdeslam Attar, the father of the legitimate leader of the group, Bachir Attar, who is also featured in the film along with the Master Musicians. Robert Palmer was also a longtime contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine. The film is produced by his daughter, Augusta Palmer.

As the manager for The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Cherie Nutting has assisted Bachir Attar with publicity and press relations for Jajouka. Numerous radio and television programs featuring Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka, music and interviews, have been seen or heard on BBC television and other stations throughout the world, as well as on PBS, Medi1 and and Radio Tanger, and seen on RTM and 2M television in Morocco. Feature articles and reviews of her husband's group have appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and many other international magazines and newspapers. The Master Musicians of Jajouka, led by Bachir Attar, have held tours and performances in European countries including Portugal, France. Spain, Germany and England, as well as in the United States, Montreal, Canada, Hong Kong, various Scandinavian countries, as well as in their native country Morocco.

Joe McPhillips, the longtime Headmaster of The American School of Tangier, who died in June 2007, said that Cherie had become the closest woman friend of Paul Bowles since the death of his wife Jane Bowles in 1973.

Photographs of interest by Cherie Nutting appear throughout this official Paul Bowles site, but some of interest relating to Jajouka may be found in the galleries of photographs by clicking here. She was one of the several close friends who attended Paul Bowles' funeral in Lakemont, New York on November 1, 2000. Cherie Nutting is represented by the June Bateman Fine Art gallery in New York City.