Click to open image viewer. Many Washingtonians danced to rhythms played on this Haitian conga drum. Hide stretched taut across the drum forms its head, held by ropes wound around pegs that pierce the ...

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NEW ORLEANS (WAFB) - The playing of African drums has been a Sunday afternoon tradition in New Orleans’ Congo Square for the past 30 years. And it’s a revival of an African custom that dates back more ...

It started with a heartbeat. The drummers and community members who fanned out Sunday underneath the broad and shady boughs of the ancestor tree, a massive oak on the edge of Congo Square inside ...

Candido Camero, a Cuban musician who helped find new expressive directions for conga drumming, providing dynamic rhythmic accents to jazz and other forms of music, died Nov. 7 at his home in New York ...

In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...

Preston Epps, a percussionist whose 1959 instrumental "Bongo Rock" helped introduce bongos and conga drums to mainstream pop, has died. He was 88. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Preston Epps, a ...

For years the doomful sound of drumming in the Congo night struck white men weak with fright. Black tribesmen, pounding out an ominous drum language of their own, threatened death to pale interlopers.