This year's showcase theme was Embodying the Elements, focusing on the elements of "earth, fire, water and air through ...

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

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

Bodies, voices and drums blended and exploded with frenzied energy as the Boka N’deye Pan African Drum and Dance Company brought “Festival Africaine!” to Hayden Hall Saturday night. Performing the ...

Babies are born with rhythm, notes Baba Shomari Matthews, director of the Nanou Djiapo African Drum & Dance group in Detroit. “The first time you hear rhythm is inside your mother’s womb.

That authenticity, that connection to their own history and indeed, precursors, is one thing that draws so many African Americans to dance. And then there are those drums. Beating as if angry ...

West African master drummer and performer Assane Seck recently shared his story with Berea through conversation, rhythmic beats and dancing. The presentation, “Africa Dobo Drum and Dance ...

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New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

SO BEMBA DRUM AND DANCE IS A CULTURAL PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION ... AND THIS IS KIND OF TWO CULTURES. IT’S A BLEND OF AFRICAN AND LATIN MUSIC. HOW ARE THEY SIMILAR AND DIFFERENT?