SF Singer Meklit’s free show this weekend will unveil a brand new band

Meklit, the Ethiopian-born San Francisco musician and cultural activist, has spent the last decade gathering disparate artists together to illuminate the themes and forces that unite them.

In the Nile Project, she and Egyptian musicologist Mina Girgis created a transnational collective that brought together musicians from nearly a dozen Nile-traversed East African nations to share music, culture and strategies for water conservation.

More recently, Meklit, who performs and records under a single name...