What do you need to make a djembe drum thunder and shout? Firm hands and rhythm. What do you need to make the roles of drummer, attorney, art director, regional manager and mother hum with finesse?

Grasping the djembe drum between her knees, Connie Ralston-Roberts raises her hands and then drops them one behind the other onto the goat skin stretched taut across the instrument’s frame. Again and ...

Come play a drum and feel the beat! Experience the songs and djembe drum rhythms of West Africa with HOZA! Join in as the Drums Speak and together we keep this ancient oral tradition alive. Part of ...

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West Africa’s Les Percussions de Guinee, recognized as one of the most extraordinary drumming ensembles in the world, has always been, by custom, male. In fact, women throughout West Africa were ...

The banks of the Charles River were kept alive by the heartbeat of djembe drums Tuesday afternoon — tying the soft rattling of bicycle spokes, the cries and laughter of children and the muffled ring ...

Mostly women and a couple of men of all ages, shapes and sizes are jovially stretching limbs, waiting for the lead dancer to signal. Then, off they go. Immediately, smiles and laughter rise from the ...

Enter the Apollo Theater and there will be a djembe drum on your seat. I speak not of some souvenir percussive takeaway nor of a cheap facsimile of the skin-covered goblet drum. Nope. Every last seat ...