Don’t tell anybody, but many practitioners of Santeria, the West African religion, purchase their batas (Nigerian two-headed drums) from a Jewish artisan in Crown Heights. “It’s almost sacrilegious to ...
PORT JERVIS - Emedin Rivera has played conga drums and percussion around the world, whether funk and soul, jazz, Afro-Irish or background music for a wolf documentary. He has played with Larry Coryell ...
Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...
In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...
It was 1967 and, according to Raul Rekow, "everyone in the Bay area of San Francisco was buying a conga and in any park you had 20 or 30 conga players, nobody really knowing how to play. We all would ...
Thousands of Puerto Ricans danced to the beat of conga drums on Friday at a memorial for Ray Barretto, a world-famous percussionist known for integrating the conga drum into jazz. Musicians Ismael ...
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