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None World Music Fest Chicago: Debo Band + Fendika, Magic Carpet at Martyrs'
The longest running and largest event of its type, World Music Festival Chicago brings more than 50 artists to 20 venues around town each September. This year’s sleeper sensations are Boston’s Debo Band and its friends in Fendika, all the way from Ethiopia. With ’60s-style funk grooves mixed with traditional pentatonic scales, Debo Band is making waves among Ethiopiques fans with the release of its first EP, Flamingoh. Fendika’s young leader, Melaku Belay, has long been a hit himself, despite this being the band’s first U.S. tour. Known as the very best dancer in Ethiopia, Belay has played more than 40 concerts worldwide in the past three years with bands like The Ex and artists like Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya while also developing his own institute for the arts in Addis Ababa.