Latvia rsquo;s bagpipe and drum group Auli have surprised audiences with a new music video created far from home ndash; in ...

Samuel Maama Marquaye has returned to Ghana with a clear purpose: to deepen his research into traditional drumming and dance, ...

Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, he writes about the Roots of ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. When Cindy Rancourt was living in her native ...

Ghana's vibrant capital, Accra, once again sets the stage for a historic global music moment this December 2025, as the inaugural Talking Drums Festival ( ) brings together some of the world's biggest ...

Since 1999, Kofi Mawuko has been sharing Ghanaian culture with the Chattanooga area, but his international influence began in his youth, with the universal language of music. Mawuko, 60, began ...

PORT JERVIS — If you're intimidated by the prospect of meeting a West African drum master, Maxwell Kofi Donkor will dissolve these insecurities in seconds. He's a tall, lean and lanky 52-year-old with ...

Fafali is the Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble of the Brandeis Music Department. The group studies and performs the music, song and dance of Ghana, and has performed at Brandeis for BASO’s Night for ...

Nine members of the traditional African drumming group Womba Africa had just endured a six-hour flight from Ghana to Cairo followed by a 12-hour flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Now, ...

In the winter of 2017, the African music scene was rocked by explosive comments about African countries emanating from the highest office in our country. In this political climate, it felt especially ...

(MENAFN- News.Africa-Wire) ACCRA, Ghana, October 28, 2025/ -- Ghana’s vibrant capital, Accra, once again sets the stage for a historic global music moment this December 2025, as the inaugural Talking ...