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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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sons of Ethiopia: A Snapshot of Admas and D.C. Music in the 1980s

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, ...
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 ...
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 ...