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 ...

If percussion is the heartbeat of music, Aaron Mossell Junior High School was alive and kicking Tuesday as band students learned to play West African drums. Youssou Lo, a drum ...

The sessions primarily involve playing the djembe drum - a large goblet originating from West Africa, covered in goat skin and played with bare hands. Instructor Janice Essam says playing the ...

Weedie Braimah is a djembefola (a master of the djembe drum), and a force of nature. Born in Ghana and raised in East St. Louis by two world-class drummers, his father Ghanaian and his mother American ...

School pupils had the chance to get hands-on with their learning about Africa, with a Djembe drumming workshop.

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- As a ferry with decorative taiko drums on its hull eases into the port of Iojima, a tiny island in southwestern Japan, a welcoming rumble of rhythmic sounds from the shore ...

Children at Cowes Primary School have been experimenting with different types of drumming to create their own beat.