Combining the features of a harp and lute, but with an appearance similar to a banjo or cello, Sean Gaskell has been studying ...

N'Faly Kouyate says his electric kora, also known as an African harp, was designed so that it could be taken as hand luggage and stored in overhead lockers on flights. He says the instrument can ...

The new release “Bamako*Chicago Sound System” (FPE Records) opens like the master-shot sequence of a documentary about a ...

The Laurel County Public Library welcomed musician Sean Gaskell to perform in the library's auditorium last Wednesday. The artist specializes in playing the West African kora, a long-necked harp which ...

African folk music is about tapping into the continent's soul. It’s about the stories, rhythms, and voices that make you feel something deep, stirring nostalgia, and pride. These artists are keeping ...

Catamount Arts and Upright Steeple Society present Yacouba Sissoko, live at York Street Meeting House, Thursday, September 26 ...

The Kora, a traditional 21-stringed instrument, holds a deep historical significance in West African music, and Jobarteh, as the first female Kora virtuoso from a griot family in The Gambia ...

The singer Mory Kanté, who helped bring African music to world audiences with hits like Yéké Yéké, has died in Guinea. Kanté died in hospital on Friday in the capital, Conakry, aged 70, his ...

Sura started his lifelong study of the kora (African harp) and a range of other percussion instruments at an early age. The family household was constantly filled with music - his musical ...

The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

For instance, many people in West Africa use calabashes to make bowls and utensils, while others use them to make instruments like Sèkèrè and kora, which are like a maraca and a lute-harp ...

From Louis Armstrong's trumpet to Grandmaster Flash's turntable and from a Central African harp to an Apache violin, these objects represent just a sampling of how music is collected, curated and ...