Community members gathered at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Sunday afternoon to experience the sounds and ...

Musician Sean Gaskell performed at the Shawnee County Library auditorium, playing the kora, a West African harp-like instrument with 21 strings.

Stewart Copeland is harnessed in COPELAND, weaving a web of whimsical opportunities that he expertly spun into reality. With ...

Taj Mahal has won five Grammys, one as recent as last year, along with a lifetime achievement award from the Recording ...

Kayode Bamgbose’s Djembe and Talking drums work at Macharia’s Soul Safari, staged at Manchester’s Contact Theatre deftly ...

The Evergreen Musical Heritage Foundation has opened its Heritage Event Hall to the public, dedicated to preserving African ...

From drum circles in Charleston to lessons in Rock Hill, African drumming is an art being embraced across South Carolina.

As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, music remains a shared record of life and change. Songs capture moments that ...

Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a modern-day Renaissance woman who trained as an opera singer before veering into folk music. She's an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. But she is first ...

South African jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim has died, bringing to a close a remarkable career that spanned more than seven decades South Africa's most distinguished pianist and internationally respected ...

This week, Spotlight on Africa explores cinema and music scoring for African documentary projects with storytellers from Mozambique and Kenya. We will also bring you news from the Cannes Film Festival ...

The plucked string has been singing since before history bothered to write anything down. Walk through any museum wing dedicated to ancient civilizations and you will see them: fragments of wood, bone ...