Anbessa Orchestra

Anbessa Orchestra at Wild Birds

Gig Alerts | Jul 23, 2021

Anbessa Orchestra at Wild Birds (In-Person)
Mon., July 26. 9PM. 

The Anbessa Orchestra is a Brooklyn band of Israeli musicians who play Ethiopian music inspired by American soul and European brass bands. But in the nightclubs and hotels of Addis Ababa in the early 1970s, this was the dance music of the day, marrying exotic Ethiopian scales with Western horns and a slinky groove. Anbessa Orchestra keeps that tradition alive and extends it with their own works in the Ethiopop style. Anbessa Orchestra plays Monday night, July 26 at the Brooklyn club Wild Birds. 

Here is the in-studio session they did for the Soundcheck Podcast:

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