The camp is centered around a marching band style that organizers say is deeply tied to historically Black colleges and ...

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

From the earliest beats of human civilization to the electric pulse of modern music, no instrument has carried the weight of ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Multicultural Festival will be held June 20-22 in a new location for this year. Due to construction at City Park, this year’s festival will be held across the river at Civitan Park in ...

It’s sung at baseball stadiums around the United States. But the impact of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” goes much further ...

Simmons joined Duke in 1998, where he taught West African and Afro-Cuban music with a particular focus on the djembe drum and ...

Join The Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library on Wednesday, June 18 on for a stimulating tactical discussion about Juneteenth. Now three years into its existence, the ways to ...

He showed interest in the drums as a toddler, banging on pots and pans; around age 12, he became inspired by Max Roach, a rhythmic architect of bebop. Foster was 20 when he logged his first ...

He showed interest in the drums as a toddler, banging on pots and pans; around age 12, he became inspired by Max Roach, a rhythmic architect of bebop. Foster was 20 when he logged his first recording ...