The Ethiopian jazz great will perform at the Howard Theatre on June 23 and 24. Most of us don’t think of music as a science. Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian vibraphonist who created the style known as ...
The conflict caused bloodshed across a region already destabilised by drought and famine. Waves of refugees crossed into Sudan and Kenya, from where many eventually made their way to destinations ...
ADDIS ABABA, April 30 (Reuters) - Young Ethiopians packed into the compound of the Swedish embassy in Addis Ababa on Saturday night to savour an "Ethio Jazz" performance, an annual festival that ...
Ethio-jazz meets modular synths on this thrilling record from the Ethiopia-born, LA-based musician ...
Music from the “Horn of Africa" will be among the sounds heard at the Jazz & Rib Fest next weekend. The Either/Orchestra, specializing in the music of Ethiopia (with leader Russ Gershon at center, in ...
On Nov. 9, around 200 people packed into the Signet Society for the second annual Ethio-Jazz Soiree, hosted and organized by Harvard’s Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association (EESA). Enlivened ...
In Ethiopia, the Amharic word “tizita” conveys varying meanings but all of them have deep emotional resonance. The word can mean a specific melody or the sense of nostalgia that is connected to that ...
Ethiopian funk invades Washington as Debo welcomes lounge lizards to the Kennedy Center’s Atrium on the Roof Terrace level for an extraordinary happy hour. The energetic Boston-based band founded by ...
The acclaimed Ethiopian-American artist Meklit Hadero released her new album A Piece of Infinity on September 26 on the Smithsonian Folkways label, and recently released sessions of these new ...
Kay Kaufman Shelemay received fellowships and grants for the research and publication process for this book from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial ...