Central Carolina Community College will host touring musician Sean Gaskell for a performance highlighting West African music, ...

The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello Foday Musa Suso, a griot, ...

Clapping and dancing to the beat of African instruments, hundreds of J.X. Wilson Elementary students participated in an energetic, cultural performance by world-renowned Diamano Coura West African ...

The new label venture will be distributed by Warner Music's ADA. By Chris Eggertsen Jasmine “Jazz” Young, a former Def Jam executive and now director of the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music ...

Canadh Croi released their first album "Badenya" in early 2026. It was supported by a state arts board grant. In a St. Paul rehearsal space — far from Conakry or County Clare — a Minnesota band is ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — For more than four decades, Kankouran West African Dance Company has been preserving and sharing the rich traditions of West African music, dance, and culture in the ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Elementary School gymnasium Friday morning was filled with the rhythmic sounds of West African music — drumming and singing — as students, faculty and staff listened and ...

The passing of celebrated Malian flautist, composer and arranger Boncana Maïga at the age of 77 truly marks the end of an era in the music of west Africa. He was a charismatic performer and bandleader ...