VALDOSTA — On March 4, Valdosta State University’s Sociology of Music class hosted The Family Village of Aya for a West African drum and dance lesson. The Family Village of Aya is a Valdosta ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

“Most of our musicians use a primary instrument, which is the shigu (a Chinese drum), before incorporating other instruments such as the gamelan, demung, bonang, djembe (African drum ...