Is it possible that rhythms pounded out on African drums can have a healing effect on our troubled world? After sitting in on a practice session of Ballet Manden, a West African drum, dance and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Rhythms Drum & Dance Store announces the return of Master Dancer Youssouf Koumbassa and ...

African master drummer Bolokada Conde will be in Aiken on Sunday to teach a drumming class. The session is at Aiken Unitarian Universalist Church, 115 Gregg Ave., for beginning and intermediate ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Join in master African drum and dance classes with Youssouf Koumbassa and Mohamad Camara from ...

It is getting near midnight on a Friday evening in the Nigerian capital in the late 1970s. Young Lagosians are trekking from Oju Elegba, at the heart of the city’s night club scene, towards the old ...

Some nights, on the fourth floor of Lyons Hall, rhythmic drumming can be heard echoing throughout the hallways. There are different layers in the music—multiple rhythms work with each other to create ...

Among the many musical masters living in New Orleans, Seguenon Kone stands apart. Unlike the jazz, brass and blues greats who were raised in and fed off the city's rich cultural landscape, Kone, an ...

Dr. Sylvanus Kwashie Kuwor, scholar and leader, Hesu African Drum Ensemble, Ghana, is the head of Department of Dance Studies at the University of Ghana. He has over a decade experience in Britain as ...