Wedding song performance by Zewditu Mesheshe, Deferech Palimo and Weynishet Al'o ZM2011-12-22_001-008

Zewditu Mesheshe, Deferech Palimo and Weynishet Al'o perform four different wedding songs. The wedding song yelliherasa is recorded twice (File 001 and File 008). The wedding song yeere yeere is recorded four times (File 002, 003, 004, 007). The wedding song abbiye maaro, sung in Goop (Gofa language), is found in File 005. The wedding song yeyo is found in File 006. If a song is recorded more than once, the last version is considered the best. Weynishet Al'o is a farmer from Mootikessa-Arzak'a, an Orthodox Christian, and a person with a great knowledge of wedding and mourning songs. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.