“There is no place in Ethiopia where Girma could do this!” an immigrant from Addis Ababa explained during Sunday night’s intermission at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. “People there don’t pay ...

The transformative power of music was recently illustrated when the first notes were played on a piano at a girls’ boarding school in rural Ethiopia. This writer was invited to the Pharo School in ...

The piano as a music type or genre has a relatively long history in Ethiopia. If we take the first Ethiopian female pianist, Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Gebrou, as a point of reference, we realize that she ...

Entertainment An African Funk Pioneer Gets a Second Chance on a Global Stage FORT WASHINGTON, Md. — When Hailu Mergia releases his album “Lala Belu” on Friday, it will be this Ethiopian piano luminary ...