Hence, her gig at this year’s Hullegeb Israeli-Ethiopian Arts Festival features a brand new trio that she calls Ahun (“now” in Amharic). Playing at Hullegeb also led, for example, to my appearing at the Poets Festival in Metula,” she says. “We are going to renew songs – songs that everybody loves,” she states. “They may know the words, but they won’t be familiar with the new emotion we introduce to the songs,” Masala chuckles. “Working in music means you address the soul, all the time,” she observes.

Source: Ethiopian News December 16, 2023 11:57 UTC