Jul. 8—WORTHINGTON — This year's International Festival will feature a brand new music act that will do its best to cover as many of the 80-plus Ethiopian cultures as possible. The Ahndenet ...

The Hullegeb Festival of Israeli-Ethiopian Culture returns to Jerusalem next week, bringing rhythm, energy, joy, and the promise of better days ahead. After a year’s delay due to the Israel-Hamas War, ...

Mulatu Astatke, 79, pioneer of Ethiopian jazz – the fusion of local music and western jazz is looking to integrate Ethiopian and Turkish music to regale audiences and inspire musicians. Speaking ...

In an amusing twist, one of the hottest Ethiopian bands going lives in Boston. Led by saxophonist-mastermind Danny Mekonnen, the 11-member Debo Band plays lush, ...

“It was a revolutionary time for music in Ethiopia,” says Hailu Mergia, a Ethiopian pianist and accordionist, describing the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa ...

The golden age of Ethiopian soul music kicked off in the mid '60s with a flurry of horns, eerie keyboards, and whip-crack drumming. Woven through the groove was the strained, conflicted voice of ...

Music Features Gili Yalo's Ethiopian rhythms turn sadness into joy—just in time for Rosh Hashanah The Jaffa resident says that if Vancouverites really want to have a good time at his upcoming ...

Music and Concerts Taxi to ‘Tizita,’ Ethiopian-born musician Hailu Mergia has always put his music first ... Ethiopian-born musician Hailu Mergia at home in Fort Washington, Maryland, on June ...

Ethiopia enjoys a rich tradition of enticing music, filled with asymmetric rhythms set to a haunting, five-note scale and sly double-entendre lyrics in the Amharic language. It's a shame that, for ...

Kaethe Hostetter was a busy Boston musician before a trip to Addis Ababa changed her life. Now, she plays with Ethiopian band QWANQWA, which is scheduled to perform at the BU Global Music Festival ...

What happened to cause musicians to leave Ethiopia? Musicians were part of a mass outflow of people from the Horn of Africa that began as a direct outcome of the Ethiopian revolution.