The Festival in the Desert -- described as the “most remote music festival on the planet” -- has taken place since 2001 near Timbuktu in the African Sahara. A celebration of the culture of the nomadic ...
Introduction. Some notes before we begin ; Beginnings ; Basic drum technique ; Rhythmic vocabulary patterns -- Stage 1 rhythmic vocabulary patterns. Gankogui and Axatse ; Obwahsimisah: a game song ; ...
The Baltimore Rhythm Festival filled Guilford Avenue with culture, music, food and workshops on Sept. 13. Druid Hills’ very own Park Vibe Drummers have been playing since 1968. Baltimore Rhythm ...
No musician has been more devoted to exploring the connection between Afro-American classical music (jazz) and the ancestral spirits and rhythms of the African continent than Randy Weston. The ...
Ever since Ornette Coleman and journalist Robert Palmer ventured to Joujouka in the late 1970s, traditional Moroccan musicians have had sporadic, generally fruitful meetings with American jazzmen.
For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...
In ‘How Black Music Took Over the World’ (Basic, Apr.), composer and bassist Gibbs charts the spread of African rhythms ...
It is customary to be quiet when in a library. This was not the case however at the Dixon Public Library on Saturday. Master percussionist and native Nigerian Onye Onyemaechi hosted an interactive ...
For decades, African musicians have taken from international influences to redefine the drums, horns, and strings that unite the continent. Fela Kuti's Afrobeat is a delightful marriage between ...
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