“Any Moroccans from the ‘hood here tonight?” Ilan Babylon belts into the microphone, strutting onstage. Standing squarely in front of an Israeli flag hanging from his disk jockey equipment, he shouts, ...

Hailed as one of the most influential jazz musician to emerge from the African continent, Ethiopian keyboard player and percussionist Mulatu Astatke returns to the UC Theatre in Berkeley, playing two ...

For Rada, Ethiopian music was always around in her family home as a young child in a small but volatile Jewish settlement on the outskirts of Hebron in the West Bank. “I was also listening to a lot of ...