Ethiopia enjoys a rich tradition of enticing music, filled with asymmetric rhythms set to a haunting, five-note scale and sly double-entendre lyrics in the Amharic language. It's a shame that, for ...

Ethio-jazz meets modular synths on this thrilling record from the Ethiopia-born, LA-based musician ...

Originally drawn to Ethiopia because of its historical uniqueness and non-western music, a Ph.D. student is now researching how music and conflict intersect in the country. Sarah Bishop, a Ph.D.

The jazz group just released an album of material by Armenian-Ethiopian composer Nerses Nalbandian, and is playing its first show in six years on Dec. 17.

The golden age of Ethiopian soul music kicked off in the mid '60s with a flurry of horns, eerie keyboards, and whip-crack drumming. Woven through the groove was the strained, conflicted voice of ...

Inside a restored theater at the heart of Addis Ababa University’s Yared School of Music — the storied institution founded in ...

Admas, a quartet of young Ethiopian musicians living in exile in Washington DC, had a ball recording an album of synth-heavy, funked up versions of Ethiopian classics. 'Sons of Ethiopia ' was soon ...

The Ethiopian Herald has just exclusively interviewed Ethiopian Musicians Association President Dawit Yifru. It was at the age of 11 he embraced music as his calling. For the past 45 years joining ...

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 ...

Meet the First Lady of Ethiopian music: “Today, 78-year-old and in frail health, Asnaketch Worku remains a living music legend, undoubtedly one of the most important singers in the history of ...