Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopia’s Fendika traditional dancers are back in New York where they will perform at Globalfest 2016 this coming Sunday. Fendika is one of 12 international groups, including from Mexico and Haiti, that is scheduled to be showcased at the 13th annual Globalfest concert.
Fendika kicks off their NYC show with an appearance at Bunna Cafe in Brooklyn on Friday, January 15th, ahead of their Globalfest performance at Webster Hall in Manhattan on January 17th.
The event at Bunna Cafe features music by DJ Selam Bekele who “combines the improvisational Azmari tradition with digital surrealism to bring you a multi-media sensory experience live from the Diaspora,” Bunna Cafe announced. And as to Azmari music, “Nobody does it better than Fendika.” Organizers share that “legendary, Melaku Belay’s famous dance troupe performs at Bunna on Friday, January 15 in an early celebration of the Timket holiday.”
The New York Times described last year’s Globalfest festival as “full of fusions both geographical and temporal: local and far-flung, old and new” and “what fortified nearly every performance was the sense that the music still comes from some place like home.” The Times noted “Fendika, an ensemble led by the exuberant dancer Melaku Belay, mixes traditional music and dance from Ethiopia.”
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If You Go:
Globalfest 2016
Sunday, January 17th
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street
New York City
www.globalfest.org
Fendika at Bunna Cafe
Friday, January 15th, 2016
1084 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tickets at www.eventbrite.com
www.bunnaethiopia.net