Azmari
Sign in to savethumb|right|325px|Azmari playing masenqo in a tejbeit, Lalibela, northern Ethiopia An Azmari (Amharic: አዝማሪ) is an entertainer who sings and plays traditional string instruments of the Ethiopian Highlands. They are comparable to medieval European minstrels, bards or West African griots.
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thumb|right|325px|Azmari playing masenqo in a tejbeit, Lalibela, northern Ethiopia An Azmari (Amharic: አዝማሪ) is an entertainer who sings and plays traditional string instruments of the Ethiopian Highlands. They are comparable to medieval European minstrels, bards or West African griots.
Azmari, who may be either male or female, are skilled at singing extemporized verses, accompanying themselves on either a masenqo (one-stringed fiddle) or krar (lyre).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Azmari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.