Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Seny Tatchol Camara, giving instructions on how to strike the drum. Credit: Brian Slattery Photos ...

What if you found out you only had 14 months to live? What if you found out when you were just 17 years old? In 1992, the song “No Rain” by Blind Melon was released, along with a video that would ...

When Jill Chadwick was an English Instructor for Calhoun Community College, she not only marched to the beat of a different drummer, she danced that way, too. She tried to put her students at ease by ...

Dan Zanes has been playing and recording roots-based music for more than two decades. But his audience nowadays is more likely to be nursing sippy cups than long-neck beers. Yes, the former front man ...

The joy and laughter of children and their parents along with the steady rhythmic pulsating beat of dejembe drums filled the sudio one room at the East Jefferson YMCA in Metairie. Amy Segar watched as ...

We’ve all heard or used the phrase, “She marches to the beat of a different drummer,” which means that someone isn’t doing what we would expect them to do. Sometimes, we chuckle when we say that ...

In 1976, the Diga Rhythm Band, a percussion ensemble led by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, released a single, “Happiness Is Drumming.” The philosophy of that title would seem to apply to Michael ...

Explore the iconic "four-on-the-floor" beat and its impact on genres like disco, house, and pop. From disco's golden era to its resurgence in modern pop, Jojo and Linda trace the four-on-the-floor ...

“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...