BOSTON—In a basement practice space in Jamaica Plain on the first Sunday in May, Danny Mekonnen gently pulled a shiny black LP out of its sleeve and held it in the yellow glow cast by a dangling ...

When most folks think of Ethiopian music they hear the slithering soul-funk sounds created by artists like Mahmoud Ahmed or Tilahun Gessesse—killer singers who delivered Amharic-language jams with ...

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, ...

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 music artist Meklit Hadero has lived in the U.S. since she left Ethiopia decades ago. (SOUNDBITE OF MEKLIT HADERO SONG, "LEFEQER ENEGEZA") MEKLIT HADERO: After the Ethiopian Revolution, there were ...

Renowned Ethiopian singer Muluken Melesse died on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after a long illness, according to his family. He was 73 years old. The vocalist rose to fame at a time of enormous ...

The event was a hit last year, and so EESA wanted to continue the tradition. Given this year’s turnout, the Ethio-Jazz soiree ...

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 ...

Almost anyone who has made aliyah has endured a challenging acclimatization process. That said, each and every oleh/olah has been through his or her own personal rites of passage, part informed by his ...