“That night, we both went home and told our parents we want to take drum lessons and that’s how I got started playing drums,” he said. Following Les Ballets Africains’ 1959 performance in the United ...

Through a grant from the Keystone Central Foundation, students at Robb Elementary School have the chance to participate in a ...

It’s not every day that the tabla and the djembe combine to produce an album. That’s exactly what percussionists Bickram Ghosh and Taufiq Qureshi did recently with RamTa, their latest ...

The event concluded with a tribute to Ravi Shankar. Exploring rhythmic patterns on the tabla, djembe and drums, Taufiq Qureshi (left) and Bickram Ghosh presented fusion compositions blending jazz ...

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.

With the sitar and keyboard adding melody, the duo created a dynamic soundscape, blending tabla, djembe, drums, and cheek-tapping percussion. The performance concluded with a tribute to sitar ...