The Boston band's debut album both honors and updates the sound of "swinging Addis," the Ethiopian capital in the late '60s and early '70s. Boston's Debo Band takes inspiration from a golden era of ...

Compared to a club of dancing fans, a humid and sunny Austin afternoon isn't the ideal setting for a Debo Band performance. But it didn't take... Compared to a dark club full of dancing fans, a muggy ...

Debo Band, an 11-member Boston-based Ethiopian-American ensemble that's taken its sunny grooves from South by Southwest to Addis Ababa, performs next on the Dartmouth Green at the corner of Wheelock ...

NORTH ADAMS — Music can trace a journey, and in the case of Debo Band, this includes the personal along with the spiritual and sonic. Its mix of Ethiopian pop with tinges of American soul and funk ...

Boston’s Debo Band both recaptures and transcends the golden age of Ethiopian music, adding accordion, strings, and sousaphone to its rolling grooves, funky horn sections, and suave vocalisms to ...