The Oyu Oro Experimental Dance Ensemble returns to New Orleans courtesy of the Ashe Cultural Center, presenting two nights of Afro-Cuban dancing with conga drums and other percussion. Oyu Oro, loosely ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Many Washingtonians danced to rhythms played on this Haitian conga drum. Hide stretched taut across the drum forms its ...

Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an acclaimed conga master who perfected a dazzling five-drum technique with a versatility that allowed him to span genres from progressive jazz to traditional ...

The African Drum Festival is fast evolving into a borderless epicentre of cultural renaissance for Africans and the black race in general. The third edition of the annual event held in Abeokuta, Ogun ...

Every now and again, a label pulls a previously unissued session out of the vaults and it proves to be a down-by-law number one with a mango. Candid did it earlier in 2006 with Jamaican tenor ...

Those funny-sounding words are music to the ears of sixth-graders at Linda Elementary School, where every week they gather in teacher Timothy Dant's Afro-Cuban drum class to palm and pound on musical ...

A bell rings at Albert Hill Middle School and a small group of sixth-grade girls comes bounding into a large wood-floored auditorium, gravitating toward chairs in front of seven African conga drums ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Percussionist Paul Hawkins played this conga drum for Melvin Deal’s African Dance and Drumming classes at The New ...