Turning down the gravel road across the road from the gate to the Millennium Hall, if one finds a large number of cars parked along the path - its equivalent to a road sign that would read “Live Music Ahead!” It is the open parking space for Club Alizé, housed in the same three-storey building as the Red Bean Cafe.

Kenny Allen, who recently collaborated with Ethiopian singer Jonny Ragga, performed in front of more than 200 spectators on July 15, 2009, at the Sheraton Addis Gas Light in a concert to launch his album, entitled "The 251".

 

The concert took nearly two hours. Artist K'Alyn, a.k.a. 'K', is an American musician who has lived in Ethiopia for the last three and half years. His initial objective was performing with the Mehari Brothers, a band of four celebrities. Now performing at a night club on African Avenue, close to the Bole Ring Road Roundabout in Addis Ababa, called Harlem Jazz, Kenny tells Fortune he was satisfied with the concert and that he felt the performance had gone exactly how he had imagined it. He started working on his album entitled "The 251", named after the country code for Ethiopia, before he came to the country.

Aida Ashenafi’s critically acclaimed film Guzo (The Journey) will become the first Ethiopian movie to be shown on Ethiopian Airlines. It is the same company that provided a sponsorship grant of 250,000 Br.
 

It will be one of the venues for the 90-minute documentary with English subtitles to have its high profile debut. It was screened in New York City on August 8, 2009, at the Hellen Mills Theatre and previously played at the Listener Auditorium at George Washington University on May 23 and 24, 2009, in Washington DC.