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SHE WAS OFFERED A PLACE AT ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT MUSIC SCHOOLS. THEN SOMEONE SAID NO. In the 1940s, a young woman in Addis Ababa was offered a funded place to study at the Royal Academy of Music in ...
News Ethiopia » Addis Ababa » Music: Ethiopians savour first night of annual 'Addis Jazz Festival'
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 ...
News Ethiopia » Addis Ababa » Music: Keep on playing
Ethio-jazz was the thrilling sound of 1960s and ’70s Ethiopia, blending traditional music with funk and soul before a dictatorship killed off the genre. Now, it's making a comeback. Ethiopia’s jazzmen ...
News Ethiopia » Addis Ababa » Music: Tribute - Oromos Mourn Ilfinesh Qannoo, Legendary Voice of Resistance
The Oromo community is mourning the death of Ilfinesh Qannoo, the celebrated singer whose music became deeply intertwined with the Oromo struggle for cultural dignity, identity and political ...
News Ethiopia » Addis Ababa » Music: Them Mushrooms awarded in Ethiopia
Them Mushrooms band leader John Katana Harrison (centre) with son Kalume Katana Harrison (left) and brother Billy Sarro Harrison (right) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.(COURTESY.) Them Mushrooms Band is a ...
News Ethiopia » Addis Ababa » Music: 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 ...
News Ethiopia » Addis Ababa » Music: Marley Feted In Ethiopia, All Not Happy
Throughout his life, Bob Marley looked to Ethiopia as the spiritual home of his Rastafarian faith. By Billboard Staff Throughout his life, Bob Marley looked to Ethiopia as the spiritual home of his ...