BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Tamara Ebo says the area around her Devastation Dance Company and Academy is a “gym desert”. There is not a traditional fitness center within a 10 minute drive from the dance ...

You wouldn't necessarily call NOMO a jazz group, though as a touring band it certainly could pass for one. A week ago at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, it carried a front line of trumpet, ...

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 5, 2017, pioneering African drummer Tony Allen, whose influential career spanned decades and continents, poses for a portrait ahead of a concert with Senegalese ...

“We have eight people out right now, and we're all in one van with no trailer,” says NOMO bandleader and saxophonist Elliot Bergman. “It's like the Ringling Brothers' clown car, Russian nesting dolls ...

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CITY student Christine Ngo Souhe convinced charity funders to award her £1,000 to run African dance classes for youngsters in Southampton because she was worried they were growing up not knowing ...

Comedian Zarna Garg performs at Stanford Live on May 11-12. Courtesy STUDIOPARAB. This weekend, comedian Zarna Garg performs at Stanford Live, local label Redtone Records holds an Afrobeat dance party ...

In a bold step forward for Afro-fusion music, the dynamic duo GH Family are set to release their inaugural single, Do Your ...

JOHANNESBURG — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager Eric ...

Afrobeat, a genre combining traditional African music with jazz, funk, and highlife, gained global popularity in the past decade. Originating in Nigeria in the late 1960s and popularised by the ...