Ethiopia

Baka ChildrenIn 2005 the Christensen Fund invited Global Music Exchange to help set up and record the third Arba Minch Festival of Music and Dance in the town of Arba Minch, southern Ethiopia.

Andi Main (who designed and organised the building of the Baka music house) organised local craftsmen to build the stage and festival infrastructure.
Su Hart with the help of Maya Wolf organised the decoration of the site and coordinated local schools to be involved.
Martin Cradick recorded the festival on his mobile multitrack and Nico Lewis filmed the festival with the help of local cameraman Befetary "Chombe" Assefa

GME took a greater role in the 2006 festival but also helped set up a local association, GUGHE, to administer future festivals.

In 2007 GUGHE will be taking over the running of the festival. They have now also created their own website which can be seen at www.gughe.org where there is information about the next festival.

See & hear the performers from the festival . . .

Watch the film about the festival: