Afropop Worldwide spoke with a young Kenyan percussionist, Kasiva Mutua, when she was a member of the Nile Project. The Nile Project actually kicked off three years earlier, and as Nile Project ...

Third Coast Percussion expands horizons for what a percussion ensemble can do. The group plays UW's Meany Center on May 3.

The plastic hose hangs from his mouth. It is plugged into the drum in front of him, like an oxygen line breathing life into ...

Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument made from suspended tubes, rods, bells, or other objects crafted from metal ...

The tabla, a vital Indian percussion instrument, features two drums played with intricate techniques. Distinct schools, known ...

Sivamani is part of International Jazz Day in Mumbai taking place on April 30 at the St Andrews auditorium. Besides Sivamani, ...

While there are arrangements of pieces by Bach or Chopin arranged for percussion, many of the instruments’ core works were composed only in the past 40 to 50 years. Several pieces were composed for ...

For University of North Texas alumnus Aakash Sridhar, the journey to jazz — and his debut album, Revived Emotions — started with the tabla and few chances to improvise. “I was not into the ...

From 1991 to 2011, in my capacity as the administrator of a music school, I experienced the successful implementation of practical guidelines provided by Atarah Ben-Tovim and Douglas Boyd in their ...

For fans, the inclusion of chenda melam was more than a musical element. The chenda, a cylindrical percussion instrument deeply embedded in Kerala’s cultural history, was a symbol of pride.

For those unfamiliar, the chenda is a cylindrical percussion instrument from Kerala, deeply rooted in the state’s festivals for centuries. Hanumankind’s bold representation of Kerala at Coachella ...

a scraping metal percussion piece. On April 11, it now sat empty with wreaths, flowers and white ribbons reading “Descanse en Paz.” Rest in Peace. Exactly a week after the Dominican artist ...