Abasi "Manblack" Hanif is a teacher, artist, percussionist, and founder of ‘Livin The Rhythm' event. Hanif teamed up with chef and entrepreneur Rahein Jones. Jones' The New Vegan businesses acquired ...

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 ...

Young music makers and their caregivers are invited to join Amos for a family African drumming circle! This drumming event will introduce songs, games, and rhythms of Amos’ native Ghana, West Africa.

TORRINGTON — Effie Mwando was speaking to more than a dozen people on a recent Thursday night session of African drumming at Howard’s Bookstore. “Just feel it,” she said. “Rub your hands over it, ...

No African drum -- or djembe, as they are known in West Africa -- is the same. No two offer the same tone. Some of the hand-carved instruments are large. Some are small. Some are undistinguished in ...

Mirror photo by Cherie Hicks Yamoussa Camara plays a djemba drum in Heritage Plaza while his wife, Valerie Metzler, watches. Behind him is a gongoma. Yamoussa Camara rapidly tapped the hacksaw blades ...

Tuviel Levi, music producer and owner of Interplay Recording and Multimedia studio in Boulder, has a long-term relationship with African drum music and reggae. When he was growing up in Brooklyn, New ...

On Thursday, as we observe Black History Month, Bear Creek Elementary School's Family Engagement Committee and Music Department welcomed professional Guinean drummer, dancer, acrobat and teacher Fode ...

It sounds like an urban myth, but he’s just crazy about drumming circles, and this Saturday’s circle is promising to be the biggest ever with an African choir, tribal belly dancers, Japanese bands, ...

JAMES ISLAND — Three-year-old Marley Zen Harwyn and 2-year-old Zoe Sunshine Harwyn were a little timid at first when joining a lively drum circle of around 30 kids at the Charleston Pour House. Their ...