Interview with the musicians K'oyaaso Maammo and Mahane Dohanbaabo QM2012-01-05_001

Ambaye Tsedeke Tirpe interviews the musicians and potters K'oyaaso Maammo and Mahane Dohanbaabo about their biography, their learning history, their repertoire and the occasions at which they make music. K'oyaaso is a potter and a musician playing the lyre and the woysa-flute. K'oyaaso is Dasta Maammo's brother and Mahane Dohanbaabo's husband. Ambaye was trained as a teacher and worked at different schools in the Basketo Special Woreda. At the time of the Baskeet documentation project he was one of the very free Baskeet native speakers who were fluent in English. In his freetime he worked as an assistant in the documentation project, carried out interviews, assisted in the transcription and translation and was a consultant in grammar and lexicon elicitation sessions. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France. Mahane is a potter and a musician playing the lyre and the woysa-flute. Mahane is Tal'ane Abusho's cousin, Masarat Dohanbaabo's younger sister and K'oyaaso Maammo's wife.