Traditional Music- Horn of Africa

Ethiopia & eritrea

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-folk music of ethiopia

-ritual music of Ethiopia

-folk music and ceremonies of Ethiopia

-Ethiopia: the Falasha and the adjuran tribe

-Religious Music of the Falashas (Jews of Ethiopia)

-three chordophone traditions

artists included:

Alemu aga

garmayon bayaga

mahay sofa

Alemayehu fantay

kafel asamarom

legassi abdi

kebrom kabrazhi

musicians and albums:

emahoy tsegue-maryam guebro/wores g. egziabher/ fantahun shewkochew/ Alemu Aga/ Kassa Tessema/ Ketema Makonnen/Mary Armede/getamessay abebe/kiber temesgen/ Alemayehu fanta/ zinnet muhabaw and tsehay amare/eshet abeba/bezawork Asfaw/ ketema mekonnen/lema breheywet/ Abel Mekbib/ zemari deacon/ tizitaw Samuel /wollo kinet (zurayish and worknesh/tsehay kassa)/ maritu legesse/ zinnet muhabaw (zinet muhaba)/Mahmoud yemar(mohammed yemer)/

classic Ethiopian traditional folk popular music/ethio-jazz:

Ethiopian National Defence Force Band

Imperial Bodyguard Band

mulatu astatke

Mahmoud Ahmed

Alemayehu Eshete

Hirut Bekele

Ali Birra

Getatchew Mekurya 

Ayalew Mesfin 

Kiros Alemayehu

Muluken Melesse

Tilahun Gessesse

hailu mergia and the walias band

Aster Aweke

Alemayehu Eshete

Neway Debebe

tewodros Tadesse

asefu debalike

bizunesh bekele

gashaw adal

roha band

aster awewke

melkamu tebeje

asnaketch worku

seyfu Yohannes

yirdaw tenaw

assegedech Assefa

woubeshet feseha

Getachew kassa

seyoum tilahun

bezawork Asfaw

ketema mekonnen

Estifanos Abraham

netsanet melese

kuku sebsebe

aregahegan worash

Aselefech ashene

Getamesey abebe

tewahedo mezmurs

oromo wellega music

ejigayehu shibabaw:

-ethiopian love songs(album)

modern Ethiopian & eritrean popular music (1980s-present):

ayalew mesfin

Tewodros taddess

wasse kassa

yeshimebet and nigatu dubale

asefu debalke

seyfu Yohannes

tsehaye yohannes

Gigi

Teddy Afro

Ephrem tamiru

elsabet Teshome

hailu kibata

Tesfaye workneh

uzaza aleyna

bisrat garedew

zenit muhaba

aschalew fetene

seyoum tilahun

mesfin Bekele

wondemu jira

kenedi mengesha

kuku sebsibe

yehunie belay

bezuayehu demissie

Tadesse Alemu

baye speedy

hamelmal abate

woretaw wubet

maritu legesse

mekdes abebe

getamesay abebe

rahel Yohannes

yirga dubale

almaz g silassie

Mohamed saleban tubeec

muluken melesse

frezer kenaw

mastewal eyayu

leul sisay

dawit tsige

mikiyas nigussie

meselu fantahun

elias tebabel

hanna girma

gizachew Teshome

veronica adane

yared negu

Abraham Afewerki

feven tsegay

Suleman ahmed

ephrem amare

timnit welday

dawit nega

Solomon maile

shewit mezgebo

robel Michael

sertsebirhan Tadesse

millen haily

bisrat surafel

filoman mahray eshiruru

fana abraha

Solomon bayre

wedi kokob

kibrom berahne 

saba andemariam

eden kesete

nehmia zeray

helen meles

tlay mesenqo

Somalia and Djibouti

musicians:

saado ali warsame

Abdullahi qarshe

waaberi band

said Mohamed harawo

maryam mursal

Cabdullahi Kharshee

cabdullahi xalweyste

haredo ismail duniyo

guduuda 'arwo

Khadija cabdullahi daleys

ismahan houmed

cabdalla yuusuf hanuuniye

cumar shooli

cumar dhuule

cabdinaasir macalin

cumar xasan rooraaye

hassan aden samatar

xasan diiriye

axamed kuluc

Hibo nuura

Mohamed sulayman tubeec

magool

axamed cali cigaal

Mohamed mooge liibaan

sahra axamed

baxsan

faadumo duur

Ibrahim baadil ahun

amina camaari

ali nuur

nima djama (nimco jamaac)

gacaltooyo band

faduumina hilowle

iftiin band

mahmud abdalla "jerry" hussen

maryan naasir

xasan diiriye

dur dur band

sahra dawo

Sharaf band

xaawo hiiraan

4 mars

danan hagreysa

Mohamed "huro" abdihashi

sharero band

faadumo qaasim

muqtar idi ramadan

Smithsonian folkways album:

-Haussein Shiekh and Radio Mogadisco Swahili Singers-Baijun Ballads: Somali Songs in Swahili