The nearly two dozen fifth-graders nervously tap on congas, twirl drumsticks and shout at their friends sitting on the floor before them. The Calvert Elementary fifth-graders are here to rock the ...

The drums are called Atumpan, considered a Ghanaian talking drum due to its ability to imitate language. In 1965, they journeyed to UCLA from Ghana through a musical collaboration between Mantle Hood, ...

Since 1999, Kofi Mawuko has been sharing Ghanaian culture with the Chattanooga area, but his international influence began in his youth, with the universal language of music. Mawuko, 60, began ...

Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, he writes about the Roots of ...

Though you’d never guess it by looking at my pale Canadian Jewish face, I was once an African drummer. My transformation began 15 years ago, when I joined a West African drum ensemble in Toronto. My ...

Nine members of the traditional African drumming group Womba Africa had just endured a six-hour flight from Ghana to Cairo followed by a 12-hour flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Now, ...

The Carver presents a class with Ghanaian drummer Jerry Kwashie Dzokoto, a djembe soloist for the percussion group Djembe Kan. After being exposed to Ghanaian drum and dance as a young child, Dzokoto ...

CONVENER of the Pan-Afrikan Drum Festival in Canada, Prince Segun Akanni has confirmed ties with the Ghana High Commission in Ghana ahead of the 2025 Pan-Afrikan Drum Festival. Akanni, on a visit to ...

Ghanaian drummer Yacub Addy, a master of African music who founded Odadaa!, worked with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and became a National Heritage Fellow in 2010, died of a heart attack on Dec. 18 ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. When Cindy Rancourt was living in her native ...