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 and dance instructor ...

Master percussionist Chief Baba Neil Clarke explained that African musical traditions ... “I like to say that the drum is the only instrument that we see today that’s a true African ...

With powerful drumming and music, heart-stopping acrobatics, and colorful dance, Cirque Kalabanté’s Afrique en Cirque ushers ...

With powerful drumming and music, heart-stopping acrobatics and colorful dance, Cirque Kalabanté’s “Afrique en Cirque” ushers ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

The telepathy up here is crazy.” Jocelyn Pleasant, leader of Connecticut’s well-loved Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost ...

In Tanzania, Kising'a farmer Bonnie Lelunga has been performing traditional Hehe music, exploring the country's fraught, colonial history.

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys.

The lights come up to reveal a fishing village. The villagers, portrayed by the dancers and acrobats of Cirque Kalabanté, are preparing for the day, throwing nets, calling out to each other, and ...

Celebrate Presidents' Day or Galentine's Day, join anime and cosplay fans at Katsucon, or hear the NSO perform in unlikely ...

A new documentary on Afrobeats, Nigerian Yoruba music, and politics will look at a century of fuji, juju, apala, sakara, highlife and more ...

February is Black History Month, dedicated to celebrating the role of African Americans in the history of the U.S.