Downtown Fayetteville comes alive every Tuesday evening with the sound of West African drums flowing from Taste of West African on Person Street ...

Led by master drummer and dancer, Kerfala “Fana” Bangoura, the ensemble combines the iconic djembe hand drum with a trio of drums played with sticks, known as dunun, sangban, and kenkeni. The powerful ...

It will be held at noon inside the Hemmingson Center Ballroom. When a high school’s African percussion group performs at Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Spokane ...

Instead, he’s finding gratification and joy in teaching the next generation with Pucci Percussion, a Lafayette-based group that focuses on African drumming. Green founded the group about a ...

Not only do they teach the performance but the history and tradition behind African percussion as well. But when they ...

"It is very important in the present political climate that we celebrate and support those who have come to our shores to ...

This is my love letter to the class I took during my final fall semester at the University of Georgia – African American percussion drumming. Sterling, Olivia and I decided to take this class ...

At the back of the newly expanded community center, a group of children sat in a circle with African drums at their feet. While one attendee knocked two drumsticks together to keep pace ...