This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

Recipient of the 2015 Jack Benny Arts and Humanities Award Helen Bond of Grayslake has brought West African drumming to the region — and like other Lake County venues, Gorton Community Center is ...

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 ...

It is customary to be quiet when in a library. This was not the case however at the Dixon Public Library on Saturday. Master percussionist and native Nigerian Onye Onyemaechi hosted an interactive ...

PEEKSKILL — African drums flanked the doorway to Kazi Oliver’s home. In a scrapbook, you can see photos and news clippings of his years of African-drumming stage performances as well as his drum ...

As more people awaken to world music, transplanted artists from around the globe find ways to share their cultures locally. Two African groups will do just that when they perform this weekend. West ...

Katie Munro’s music classes at Balboa Elementary in north Spokane have a cadence set by African drums thanks to a $2,000 Making Music Matter grant from the Washington Music Education Association.

FLINT, MI — Since the age of five, Kevin “Baba” Collins has had some sort of instrument in his hands and had a hunger for learning about his culture and its history. “I’ve been studying music ever ...