OF WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING SINCE BIRTH AND NOW HE’S SHARING HIS PATH IN PASSION WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE A LOT YOUNGER THAN HE IS. YEAH TODAY HELD A WORKSHOP AT THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Some lucky kids got to learn from an award-winning artist about African drumming. Weekly classes in African drumming at the Baden Street Settlement are underway. Classes are hosted ...

Half of the percussion section is lined up along a classroom wall, with whiteboards to their backs. Each young boy is shaking a shekere — a West African instrument made from a dried gourd and covered ...

Hakim Muhammad spent his life torn every year between football and music. He spent his school years doing both until college, when he had to pick one. His choices were an athletic scholarship at ...

When Chimie Bangoura moved to Vermont in 2007, he knew plenty of languages, but English was not one of them. Growing up in West Africa, he spoke French at school and learned the six native languages ...

The African drumming was over in the Roosevelt Middle School gym. Most of the students had left once the Black History Month celebration ended. Lanie Saengdara stayed. It was her turn this winter day ...

OSSINING A big round of applause concluded a weeklong summer camp, during which children learned West African dancing and drumming from an expert in the field. About 20 children from second to fifth ...

Zebra Kids, a documentary focusing on Zaipo Oula’s African drumming and dance class at Baltimore’s Robert Poole Middle School, will have its world premiere Thursday at the Creative Alliance at the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – Dr. Marcia Howard is a Waianae High School special education teacher, but her classrooms are like no other. [Hawaii news on the go–LISTEN to KHON 2GO weekday mornings at 7:30 a.m.] ...

As a trained and experienced musician, Herb Green could be touring the world with popular artists, playing large festivals and arenas. Instead, he’s finding gratification and joy in teaching the next ...