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

Growing up in a rural part of Tennessee, Keenan Webster would listen to gospel music at church, and hear the influence of ...

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

Burna Boy, Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Afrobeats has dominated global dance music for the last decade or so. Many of us will remember how acts like P-Square of Nigeria ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.