Hundreds – if not thousands – of people from all walks of life will heed the call of the djembe drum when it takes center stage at public Kwanzaa celebrations throughout the Triangle, particularly in ...

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

The history and meaning of the Djembe In all different styles of music, you can find the Djembe drum, a musical instrument that was taken from enslaved Africans and evolved and grown popular in ...

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

Ferraris trains and certifies leaders in use of the African djembe, a hand drum made of hollowed trees with stretched goatskin heads, specifically for helping addicts recover. The call-and ...

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

Before students began playing, Camara explained this history to them. The djembe drum is part of everyday life in West Africa, used for baby-naming ceremonies, weddings and baptisms.