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, ...

MBIRA artists feel they do not have to go to a formal college for them to teach the instrument as a subject in schools or colleges. The instrument is a traditional heritage some of whose manufacturers ...

SAMPLE Chigumbu is arguably one of the most refined makers of traditional music instruments like marimba and mbira and has also maintained their traditional sounds and melodies through song and the ...

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A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preserve wisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19. By Jon Pareles This obituary is part of a series ...

The mbira, or “thumb piano,” a traditional African instrument, is declining in popularity in big cities, a musician and seller of traditional musical instruments from Cape Town, South Africa told ...

Harare — IT is about time serious promoters come on board to promote some of the original vibes from the mother land. I am, of course, referring to mbira music, which is Zimbabwe's major sound beat.

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 ...

Chiwoniso Maraire, the gifted singer credited with introducing Zimbabwe’s traditional mbira music to younger, urban audiences, has died at the age of 37 in an hospital in Harare. Born in the United ...

Inside a pub in Harare, a harmonic rhythm of traditional musical instruments echoed off the walls. Musical group Dziva Rembira performs at a concert in Harare, Zimbabwe, Nov. 18, 2021. (Xinhua/Tafara ...