SOFIA, Bulgaria—Christiana Daneva holds high educational degrees in Business Administration, International Relations, and European Studies. She is keen on dancing, drawing, restoring antiquities, and ...

"Wanderings in the Quest," featuring Ann Altman's reverse paintings on glass, will be on exhibit Oct. 1 through 31 at Lunaria Gallery, 113 N. Water St., Silverton. This unusual medium has roots in ...

When Chimie Bangoura moved to Vermont in 2007, he knew plenty of languages, but English was not one of them. Growing up in West Africa, he spoke French at school and learned the six native languages ...

Sowande Keita of Detroit has been playing the drums for as long as he can remember. “There’s a legendary story, that is actually very true, my father tied the DJembe around my waist before I could ...

The tremendous swirl of color and rhythm; the rich layering of djembe drums with the kora lute and marimba-like balafon; storytelling theater that starts as gentle conversation and escalates into a ...

Santa Cruz >> If you”re a djembe drum fan anywhere in the world, chances are you”re aware of a little shop at 105 Pioneer St. There, Santa Cruz resident Matt Hardwick runs Drumskull Drums, where he ...

They had to compete with graduations, the incipient Memorial Day weekend holiday, and a dreary morning, but a trio of drummers and dancers nonetheless drew a crowd. Christian Adeti, Maxwell Ayivi and ...

Since the iPad’s 9.7-inch display is relatively close in size to a drum head, it makes the device a natural candidate for percussion apps. Enter the DjembePad: an app that emulates the Djembe African ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

Students from the Wade Center in Bluefield had an opportunity Tuesday to learn about West African Djembe Rhythms. Adama Dembele, master Djembefola (dejembe player) from the Ivory Coast, who now ...

A free West African drum circle takes place every Tuesday night in Fayetteville. The circle is led by Francis Kweku Osei, a professional drummer from Ghana. The event aims to share West African ...