This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

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 ...

Instructor Lawrence Greene leads the African Drumming Class at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta Social Hall Saturday. (Photo by Larry Launstein Jr.) MARIETTA — Residents in the Mid ...

African drumming has always been a key part of the continent's rich cultural heritage, but contemporary artists are now ...

FLINT, MI — Since the age of five, Kevin “Baba” Collins has had some sort of instrument in his hands and had a hunger for learning about his culture and its history. “I’ve been studying music ever ...

More than 100 Aurora grade-schoolers got a two-concert treat Wednesday — one of Negro spirituals and the other of African drum music — at the Fox Arts Center in Aurora as part of Black History Month ...

Female African drummers are a rare sight even now. Twenty-five years ago, when Atlanta's own all-female African drum, dance and vocal ensemble, Giwayen Mata, started, it was even rarer. But that ...

Accra is gearing up for a major moment in global music this December as Ghana’s capital hosts the first-ever Talking Drums ...

Zachariah Combs likes to perform for an audience, especially one made up of children or teens. But he doesn’t like the kind that sits silently at attention, listening to his music and holding their ...

Katie Munro’s music classes at Balboa Elementary in north Spokane have a cadence set by African drums thanks to a $2,000 Making Music Matter grant from the Washington Music Education Association.

“I’m so grateful that for 25 years the people of Townsville have supported this event, and the Full Moon Drum Circle is very ...