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. Boston's Debo Band takes inspiration from a golden era of ...

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 ...

On Nov. 9, around 200 people packed into the Signet Society for the second annual Ethio-Jazz Soiree, hosted and organized by Harvard’s Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association (EESA). Enlivened ...

Between classes, jobs and teaching Sunday school at their church, the four members of AFG Gospel Band squeeze in practice time, usually Saturday mornings. It's not an unusual story for a fledgling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...