One of the best-known African drums is the West African djembe. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered in goat skin.

Florence Price took the traditions of classical music and combined them with West African rhythms and dance ... Banned from playing musical instruments, these slaves used their bodies to create ...

Musician, author and cultural educator Dave Kobrenski is bringing the vibrant sounds of West Africa back to North Conway with his fall series of West African drumming classes.