This instrument also the balafon, which is an African marimba, and also the ngoni which is a five string West African lute.

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

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The Soweto String Quartet are in town to celebrate their 25th anniversary at Carnival City tomorrow. The Afro-classic music maestros - or SSQ as the four guys are known - will perform hits from their ...

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...