OF WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING SINCE BIRTH AND NOW HE’S SHARING HIS PATH IN PASSION WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE A LOT YOUNGER THAN HE IS. YEAH TODAY HELD A WORKSHOP AT THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Some lucky kids got to learn from an award-winning artist about African drumming. Weekly classes in African drumming at the Baden Street Settlement are underway. Classes are hosted ...

When Chimie Bangoura moved to Vermont in 2007, he knew plenty of languages, but English was not one of them. Growing up in West Africa, he spoke French at school and learned the six native languages ...

Half of the percussion section is lined up along a classroom wall, with whiteboards to their backs. Each young boy is shaking a shekere — a West African instrument made from a dried gourd and covered ...

Hakim Muhammad spent his life torn every year between football and music. He spent his school years doing both until college, when he had to pick one. His choices were an athletic scholarship at ...

Kalea Chantry and Keilgh Chantry play under chairs with Sophie Kunzler during an African dance and culture class at the Provo Library, Friday, July 29, 2016. The Provo Library is hosting a two-day ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Skidmore College is well-known for its hands-on approaches to education.

Zebra Kids, a documentary focusing on Zaipo Oula’s African drumming and dance class at Baltimore’s Robert Poole Middle School, will have its world premiere Thursday at the Creative Alliance at the ...

It's not about drums, says Andy Jones, who imports the handmade instruments from West Africa, it's about people. The Djembe drums, carved from hardwood trees and topped with stretched goatskin, ...

The fog had burned off, the sun was high and bright, and there was a light breeze swaying the leaves and branches of surrounding trees. It was a perfect day for drumming. So instructor Jim Greiner, a ...