Comments on: Photos: Historic Ethiopian Concert in New York

By: Sheila Primas

Sheila Primas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:06:30 +0000

Need a Ethiopian performance group for April 30, 2010 for about an hour or so to perform and a lower school (K – 5) for our international day.

Please send email if you have any leads: sheila.nyc@hotmail.com

Thanks,
Sheila

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Debo Band Wins BMA’s International Music Act of the Year at Tadias Magazine — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:34:49 +0000

[...] “Yes, we’ve been given the incredible opportunity to bring Ethiopian music for the first time to East Africa’s largest music festival: “Sauti za Busara” on the island of Zanzibar, February 11th-16th, 2010,” he said. “For our performance at the festival we’ll be joined by four brilliant musicians and dancers from Fendika, an azmari bet in the Kazanchis area of Addis Ababa: Selamnesh Zemene (vocalist), Melaku Belay (dancer), Zenash Tsegaye (dancer), and Asrat Ayalew (drummer). Your readers may know Melaku, who was the dancer at the incredible Getachew Mekuria/The Ex concert at the Lincoln Center in August 2008.” [...]

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By: lulu

lulu — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:13:31 +0000

It was really wonderful! you can see how much we lost through the years !

By: danny

danny — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:11:08 +0000

Yes, thanks to Liben and everyone at Tadias for all the great work promoting the event. I heard from one of the performers that someone at Lincoln Center said that 8,000 people attended and from what I saw more than half were Ethiopian!

FYI, the dancer’s name is Melaku Belay. Melaku recently purchased Fendika, the historic night club in Kazanchis, and is offering dance instruction there as well. You can learn more here: http://www.myspace.com/melakufendika

-Danny

By: CHRISTOPHER A. DEMMA

CHRISTOPHER A. DEMMA — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:35:30 +0000

Tadias (Tseday and Liben)

Thank you very much for bringing this “once-in-a-life-time event” alive to everyone who did not have the opportunity and privilege to see and enjoy the moment! Thanks for your dedications, Tadias!

Mahmoud, Alemayehu, Getachew and the great “Eskista” dancer, (sorry I missed his name, too embarrassed and forgive me for that) were more than I expected them to be. The band was excellent, the “nuveau” Ethiopian Jazz sound, unlike I have never heard of. It was just magical. I had been away from mother Ethiopia for so many decades and I must say that this was the greatest treat I have ever gotten.

A very warm thanks to the organizers of the Lincoln Center for making this happen ,and hope that they will cherish us with the new generation of singers from the Mother Land with the same flavor at some point in the future!

I have been to many concerts here in New York as a regular New Yorker and nothing tops this event! It just touches you so deep in a way you can never imagine.

Thank you ,Tadias, for your fine work and effort to bring this and other noble issues to the vast audiences around the world. Keep up the good work in this information super highway!

Jappy and Christopher
New York City
August 21, 2008