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 ...

Not just any drums — traditional African drums, ... The African Gourd." Organizers at Millersville University asked Mann-McFarlane if the dancers wanted to perform on June 18.

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 ...

From generation to generation, stories, songs and history are passed down through western African Griots — hereditary ...

The banjo may be emblematic of white-mountain culture, but its often misunderstood roots lie in the gourd instruments of Africa. Complicated racial dynamics, rife with resilient creativity and ...