In early December with the fall semester coming to an end, two students — Ryan Henderson, and Margo O’Meara — showed up for Bradley Simmons’ djembe class at the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building on East ...

African drums are finding their rhythm in Beijing after supporters manage to tap into the soccer season. The Djembe, an African hand drum, has been very popular in China years before the South Africa ...

The Johann Strauss School of Music Malta, in collaboration with Valletta 2018 Foundation, is organising a series of djembe drumming workshops. The workshops will be conducted by renowned Senegalese ...

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 ...

When you are Djembe drumming, you focus your energy on keeping the beat. While you are doing this, your drumming action promotes circulation and therefore the flow of oxygen. The movement and ...

Although Djembe drumming is traditionally coming from West Africa, the tradition has spread in many countries across the globe. In Germany, many people are embracing the music and are keen to learn ...

Ask anyone from West Africa what a djembe is and they will know - a traditional skin drum tuned by using ropes. The name loosely translates from the Bambara language of Mali as "gather in peace".