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 ...

Earthy, pulsating sounds from the djembe reverberate in your ears as you watch Pune-based drummer Varun Venkit play this West African instrument in a YouTube video. The ex-Agnee drummer is India’s ...

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?

Decked up in a bright Aztec-print costume, Kero Davila arches her body forward and moves powerfully to the rustic rhythms of the djembe in a video posted on the website of Drum Art, a West African ...

“If you have a drum, please play it,” Moe Jerant told a crowd gathered on a Sunday afternoon at Mayfair’s Lakeside Stage in 2005. “If you have hands, you can clap. If you have feet, you can stomp. … ...