The Southside Library Boosters Inc. presents Valdosta’s 33rd annual Juneteenth celebration, June 17-21.   The first event ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, heard news of ...

Moholo, known as Bra Louis, has passed away at 85 after a prolonged illness, leaving behind a legacy as a trailblazing ...

The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

As June honors the people, places, and cultural influences of Black Music Month, it would be impossible not to mention the impact that Afrobeats has had not just on hip-hop music, but pretty much all ...

For this month’s ‘Made in Africa’ column, we list the music from across the African diaspora we’re taking into the summer ...

Ghanaian dance and drumming in Minneapolis; Flint Hills Family Festival in St. Paul; Twin Cities Asian Fair in Plymouth; ...

A free West African drum circle takes place every Tuesday night in Fayetteville. The circle is led by Francis Kweku Osei, a professional drummer from Ghana. The event aims to share West African ...

The Agoro African Drum Beat Circle in Fayetteville is an open, energetic group where anyone is invited to join in and celebrate West African drumming. Lizmary Evans UNC baseball postgame press ...

“Rocket” began with an African drum pattern inspired by “Burundi Black” by French pianist and composer Michel Bernholc. (Bernholc used the pseudonym Mike Steiphenson, though “Burundi ...