Rhythms of African drums resonated through the halls of Pine Street Elementary School Wednesday. Inside the school’s multi-purpose room, even students who weren’t on stage performing clapped hands to ...
This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...
Unlike professors who speak about their subject matters, master drummer Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng embodies what he teaches: he doesn’t talk about the drum, he becomes the drum. Obeng, a professor of ...
Fafali is the Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble of the Brandeis Music Department. The group studies and performs the music, song and dance of Ghana, and has performed at Brandeis for BASO’s Night for ...
The Carver presents a class with Ghanaian drummer Jerry Kwashie Dzokoto, a djembe soloist for the percussion group Djembe Kan. After being exposed to Ghanaian drum and dance as a young child, Dzokoto ...
The drums are called Atumpan, considered a Ghanaian talking drum due to its ability to imitate language. In 1965, they journeyed to UCLA from Ghana through a musical collaboration between Mantle Hood, ...
PORT JERVIS — Maxwell Kofi Donkor from Ghana will be leading "Music and Culture of Ghana," a series of drumming workshops, free of charge at the Port Jervis Youth Center, 134 Pike St. There will be ...