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Ethiopian Artists Celebrate New Year at U.S. Embassy, Fostering Cultural Ties & Friendship

Addis Ababa, September 5, 2025 (ENA) -- Ethiopian artists presented the famous Ethiopian New Year cultural song “Abeb Ayosh” at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa today in connection with the upcoming ...
WBUR

How a trip from Boston to Ethiopia birthed the maverick band QWANQWA

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 ...
The Arts Desk

Éthiopiques: Mulatu Astatke and the Story of Ethiopian Jazz

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 ...
The Conversation

Ethiopia’s musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution - how their culture lives on

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 ...