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Gili Yalo & The Anbessa Orchestra

  • The Drake 44 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA, 01002 United States (map)

Tickets $16 - $25
Doors open at 7pm

A remarkable thing happened in Ethiopia in the 1970s: The funky sounds of James Brown, Fela Kuti’s afrobeat, jazz, psychedelia, and West African Afro-funk had their moment – all at the same time – when the first record stores opened in Addis Ababa. And these imported sounds wove together with Ethiopia’s diverse music traditions to usher in a Golden Age of cross-pollinated sounds, scales and rhythms.