Africa is a culturally rich continent, and its musical instruments reflect that vibrant heritage. The instruments not only ...

The Council Bluffs Public Library will host a free musical performance Saturday afternoon featuring musician Sean Gaskell ...

T his month, the Redmond Library hosts a live marimba performance featuring the Baduku and Bahuru marimba bands from Richland ...

Commissioned from American composer Derrick Skye, the one-movement Deliverance was a “transcultural” string quartet, blending Persian classical melodic material with rhythmic elements from West and ...

Makadem (real name Charles Odero Ademson)’s new release is an upbeat tempo that sees life as a celebration. The Luo Benga ...

Ethiopia’s Kokob Gebrehaweria Tesfay, a SRFTI Kolkata student made ‘A Doll Made Up of Clay’ featuring Nigerian Ibrahim Ahmed, ...

Their journey began as a playful idea between Nyoni, a pianist and choral director, and Belle, a master of the Guqin from China. “When I sought to add African stringed instruments to the mix ...

Members of the Old-Time String Band perform on stage with a variety of instruments. The ensemble will perform at Schoenberg Hall tonight at 7 p.m. alongside the African American Music Ensemble.

Amadou Bagayoko, Singer-Guitarist in Malian Duo Amadou & Mariam, Dies at 70 The blind musician combined traditional African music with rock, pop, and blues in the husband-and-wife project ...

A West African banjo-like akonting instrument on display in Spain's the Casa Museo del Timple, Lanzarote. CREDIT: own work/Creative Commons “Same thing with the fiddle,” he continued.

In this excerpt from Eliot Stein's 'Custodians of Wonder,' a writer travels to West African to find an 800-year-old instrument called the Sosso-Bala ...

The ‘king of the kora’, who died on 19 July at the age of 58 after a short illness, Toumani Diabaté left his mark on the traditional Mandinka repertoire, elevating the West African string instrument ...