Enter the Apollo Theater and there will be a djembe drum on your seat. I speak not of some souvenir percussive takeaway nor of a cheap facsimile of the skin-covered goblet drum. Nope. Every last seat ...

West Africa’s Les Percussions de Guinee, recognized as one of the most extraordinary drumming ensembles in the world, has always been, by custom, male. In fact, women throughout West Africa were ...

In Los Angeles, finding a djembe, a West African drum, or a Native American tom-tom can be difficult. So two years ago, Houston-born Chris Reid started selling rare and exotic drums on his Web site, ...

A drumming workshop is inviting people to discover the uplifting rhythms of West African music. Taking place in Stourbridge, the session is organised by the Spirit of Djembe community group, which ...

Drumshack owner Jonathan Pimenta playing his djembe drum at a coffee shop in Umhlanga. Owner of the Durban based Drumshack, Jonathan Pimenta, believes in the healing power of djembe drumming. “I have ...

Female African drummers are a rare sight even now. Twenty-five years ago, when Atlanta's own all-female African drum, dance and vocal ensemble, Giwayen Mata, started, it was even rarer. But that ...

Since the iPad’s 9.7-inch display is relatively close in size to a drum head, it makes the device a natural candidate for percussion apps. Enter the DjembePad: an app that emulates the Djembe African ...

How do they do it? That's the question you ask when you see someone in their golden years of life as active as 30- and 40-year-olds. "You can't beat me eating vegetables and fruit, I'm a fruit fanatic ...

Senegalese drum master and teacher Sangue Mbacke was born into West Africa’s Griot society, a cultural group regarded as storytellers, poets, singers and oral historians. So, music, particularly ...