A musical Wednesday night

Melaku called in the afternoon yesterday wondering if I wanted to go see music last night. Apparently there is a band at the Sheraton Wednesday through Friday; not only that they start at 8AM. What a concept ... music and still able to get to bed at a reasonable hour. They were good, with their repertoire split between western rock, African rock, and Ethiopian traditional. There were four or five different singers. The woman did Beat It and What's Love Got To Do With It best, and their rendition of Smooth was ok. We left about 10 to a bill of 258 birr which is about $20 USD. For that I had 2 Tia Maria doubles and Melaku 2 beers ... seemed expensive compared to some other nights out but that would have cost, with a tip, over $40 at a high end Sheraton in America. This hotel reminded me of Vegas. The security was seemingly heavy with metal detectors and guards everywhere. The crowd was 90% ferenge. In addition to the deliverable I gave Ato Mussa yesterday I will be giving him another today. Other than that ... life goes on.