Within traditional African societies, music is not to be consumed alone, but is always accompanied by dancing. For within the continent's vast and numerous cultures, music, dance, and rites were all ...

South African instruments also are featured, including the uhadi, a gourd bow made famous by the late Xhosa traditional music matriarch Nofinish Dywili.

Music Habib Koite mixes traditional African music with modern Western influences Published: Mar. 16, 2010, 8:55 a.m. By Marty Lipp/For The Star-Ledger ...

The first-ever Sounds of Africa festival offers workshops on traditional African musical instruments and dance. There will also be live music, a fashion show and vendors selling African food.

MELISSA BLOCK, host: Take traditional African instruments, electrify them and set them to a dance beat that resembles club music, electronica or trance. You've got Congotronics.

The instruments onstage outnumbered the band members, and the interesting use of three electric guitars, a saxophone, traditional African instruments, drums, bongo sets and, of course, a cowbell ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- African Alchemies, a program that includes traditional African music, as well as new music inspired by its melodies, will be performed at 8 p.m. March 29 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 ...

For Randy Weston, Africa was the wellspring of music — the spiritual and rhythmic source of blues, African American spirituals, samba, bossa nova and, above all, jazz. Weston, who was 92 when he ...

Take traditional African instruments, electrify them and set them to a dance beat that resembles club music, electronica or trance. You've got Congotronics. It's the name of a CD series that ...