Wedding and mourning song performance by Amirk'ano Shaashina and other women ASh2011-12-12_001-008

Amirk'ano Shaashina, Almaz Lemma, Ts'ahay Dire and Gariyo Dire perform wedding and mourning songs. File 001. wedding song: abbiye maaro; file 002. mourning song for which two names were given: i. tuud'i yeets ('buttock song' = name refers to the associated dance), ii. hallalo; file 003. mourning song for which two names were given: i. tuud'i yeetts ('buttock song'), ii. kashiyo; file 004: weddings song: sibaako siwaane; file 005: mournings accompanied on the shulshula (bamboo flute) and called eysitts yetts ('song that catches'); file 006: wedding song: ekkiz bazin bayye ('there is nothing to take'); file 007: wedding song: alambushe; file 008: yeyo (possible alternative name: kari keskire?). Amirk'ano Ts'ahay Dire's and Dire's mother Gariyo is Amirk'ano Shaashina's daughter. Ts'ahay is Amirk'ano Shaashina's daughter Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.