The bottle gourd, beloved since pre-Columbian times not only for its voluptuous shape but for its endless uses, very likely floated on ocean currents from its native Africa to South America inside ...

African Drums and an Organ. Md. Church Welcomes Easter With a Joyful Noise. By Steve Hendrix. March 23, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. It's a setting you could find in Presbyterian churches all over the ...

The first international exhibition devoted exclusively to African musical instruments as works of art will open with a free public concert and reception July 16 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.… ...

Derived from multiple West African gourd stringed instruments, a five-string banjo has four melody strings in one drone string. The drone string is the short string at the top.

California's Claremont Colleges has sold its historic collection of 1,200 instruments to the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix ... Civil War-era brasses and an African gourd fiddle among ...

Artists from throughout the state will gather and showcase their exquisite gourd art at the 9th Annual Gourd Art Festival in Knights Landing, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.The festival, taki… ...