Telahun Gessese
ARTIST/Dr. Telahun Gessese: The Thunderous voice of the King of Music
By Teodros Kiros, PhD
Joy. Laughter. Dance and more dance. Pride and tradition, modernity and Classism. These were the languages of the Ethiopian youth and some of their parents on this cold winter night as they jubilantly flooded the dance floor.
The dance floor at a huge hall readied to accommodate over a thousand people bursting with the exuberance of youth, the fire of joy, the swings and twists of modern Ethiopian dance responding to the groveling multicultural band of a Caucasian trumpeter, an oriental clarinet and an Ethiopian female singer dominated this winter night in the city of Watertown, Ma, on December 9, 2006. Read more »