Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 8—WORTHINGTON — This year's International Festival will feature a brand new music act that will do its best to cover as many ...

His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu ...

Interview - Zena is a London-born duo composed of Kokoroko keyboardist Yohan Kebede and bassist Menelik. Informed by their shared Ethiopian heritage, they mix traditional Ethiopian sounds with an ...

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 ...

At a hotel in Addis Ababa well-known for hosting jazz greats, thousands of fans lined up on a Saturday night to headbang along with what is still a rarity in Ethiopia's diverse music scene -- a rock ...

When the band QWANQWA takes the stage of the BU Global Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 17, it’ll be making its Boston debut — as are five of the other groups playing the free event. But if the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...

Senior research and teaching fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Music has played a key role in the Oromo resistance movement. As is the case in many other societies – especially ...