Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and ...

There are 64 different types of drums from India, and Ragi Rao of Kennewick can play about a dozen of them. The India-born man will give a performance and talk about a selection of those drums ...

Like the 2013 music documentary “Muscle Shoals,” which posited a poetic connection between hit songs and water – in that case, the Tennessee River and the Fame recording studio of Muscle Shoals, ...

Avirodh Sharma is right at home playing the Tabla with the young students of the East Indian Music Academy. After all, his parents started the school in their home when he was young and not too long ...

For decades, Joleen Patene felt drawn to American Indian culture without knowing why. Her Sicilian Catholic family questioned her interest in tribal dance and music. Patene only knew traditional ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — November is Native American Heritage Month. It's a time to recognize the history, culture, and contributions of Indigenous people. In Native American culture, drums are used to ...