Pharrell Williams on collaboration and finding passion while receiving the Candle in Arts and Entertainment Award at ...

For a little more than three decades, Simmons has taught classes in West African and Afro-Cuban music and history at Duke University. Simmons says his djembe classes are typically small. But that does ...

In a world where music is confined to commercial tunes and digital beats, city-based musician Siddharth Venkat is on a ...

David Byrne has a long history of celebrating the music of the African continent, and recently curated a playlist of his ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she ...

Growing up in a rural part of Tennessee, Keenan Webster would listen to gospel music at church, and hear the influence of West African sounds of music. "I felt like I knew these vibes from some ...

EMPIRE, which already has big presences in West Africa and North Africa, is expanding into South Africa with a new office in Johannesburg.

Our four non-Western music ensembles—open to both music majors and non-music majors—explore West African Highlife, Japanese, Gamelan and Latin American traditions. Each ensemble presents one public ...

Amid Black History Month celebrations in February, some local musicians say they are finding more opportunities at various venues to share their work and stories.