Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...

Today’s Google Doodle focuses on the mbira instrument. Google Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a game wherein the user can “play” the mbira using their laptop or handheld device. Over hundreds of ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- When high-ranking Zimbabwean mbira player Forward Kwenda absorbs himself in playing his instrument, the results can be blindingly electric. "Nothing goes through my mind," Kwenda said.

What happened to good old Christmas releases? In the past when Gramma Records and Zimbabwe Music Corporation were truly active, they would, around this time, release compilation albums of the singles ...

Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...

John Thomerson (left) plays the mbira next to master mbira musician “Sinyoro” Caution Shonhai. When SKyCTC Academic Adviser John Thomerson first picked up a mbira, a Southern African “thumb piano,” as ...

Two visiting artists will bring Zimbabwean music for the mbira — a traditional instrument that has been popular in that part of Africa for centuries — to the Pitzer Center on the UC Davis campus at 2 ...

Join us Saturday evening at the Well-Being Hub in Warmister, for a vibrant evening of traditional Zimbabwean music and dance. We welcome our brother Tafara Chakanetsa, a Devon-based musician, ...

Modern Zimbabwean music, which is still quite rooted in tradition, has successfully penetrated the international scene through the efforts of global stars like Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi. In ...

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the cultural ...