One Bay Area man who plays an unusual West African instrument recently discovered ... Keenan Webster would listen to gospel ...

But in the Mandinka language of West Africa, they are known ... balafon may be the most famous djeli instrument, it's far from the only one. Google "djeli music," and in addition to balafon ...

A player will manipulate the pitch of the drum by stretching or squeezing the strings of the drum The talking drum is a West African instrument that has drum skins on both the top and bottom of ...

You can catch Afrobeat, funk, bluegrass and more at Chicago’s small and medium-sized clubs in April.

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 ...