#MulatuAstatke #TeddyAfro #TilahunGessesse #Ethiopia #jazz https://mastodon.xyz/media/2QZxQ52gkaPtW6sNKZw

Me and my wife already had a taste of Ethiopian music when we saw #HailuMergia open for #Beirut a year earlier and his band completely upstaged then.

Our driver was so excited that we'd heard of him and knew a little about their oppressive regime and what #TeddyAfro and his music symbolizes. Unity. Freedom.

As he let us off I asked what it was because it was at that point the brightest part of my darkest day as a parent.

His face lit up from someone actually engaging with him on a human level and began to tell me all about the #music of #TeddyAfro and #Ethiopia