Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience for the last time. Last ...

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 — or Unity ...

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 ...

The Boston band's debut album both honors and updates the sound of "swinging Addis," the Ethiopian capital in the late '60s and early '70s. Debo Band: Ethiopian Funk, Reinvented Boston's Debo Band ...

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 ...

ROSENDALE, N.Y. — Juma Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society joins Ethiopian band Qwanqwa in a twin bill at the Rosendale Theatre at 408 Main St. on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Juma Sultan collaborated ...

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 ...

NORTH ADAMS — Music can trace a journey, and in the case of Debo Band, this includes the personal along with the spiritual and sonic. Its mix of Ethiopian pop with tinges of American soul and funk ...

TO WESTERN EARS, the music seems both foreign and familiar. Its mood stretches from sultry and haunting to upbeat and vibrant. Soulful Western undertones are audible, yet the overall impression is ...

Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...