Rehearsals

After our return from Dire Daoua, we had 3 more gigs to look forward to before returning back to Paris.

We had rehearsals planned with Asrat, Mihret and Fekerte during the day, and by Friday we were ready to play a few songs together.  This meeting between us and these talented Ethiopian artists has proven to be fruitful and we were all satisfied with the result.  We met up without really knowing where this collaboration would take us, and as all good collaborations go, we quickly settled into 3 songs (a traditional tune they taught us called Aynama (I hope I spelt this right), and 2 songs of ours which suited the Ethiopians most).  We learnt from each other, discussed and shared ideas, and the resulting concert was rewarding for us as well as for the audience listening.

We managed to achieve one of the biggest objectives of our Ethiopian venture and look forward to continuing this collaboration either in France or again in Ethiopia!