The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music is seeking donations of gently used instruments to help make music more accessible to Milwaukee-area kids.

“JC” Johnny Conga, a Volcano Percussion endorsee, has been performing for 45 years, as a “multi-percussionist-specialist”, in the Art of Afro-Caribbean Drumming, and Latin-Jazz music. Some of the ...

From AI-powered cocktail pairings to poop-tracking algorithms, The Drum Awards for Marketing winners show how a single data point can unlock big ideas. Here are lessons marketers can borrow for their ...

Timothy Gachanga served as a project manager for the Journeys of Peace (JoP) exhibition, supported by the Swedish Foundation through the Swedish NGO Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB). The ...

A large conga drum with a brown shell. In absence of belly bands, the shell has three pairs of lines engraved around. The shell also has abrasions and scraches. All metal pieces, the handle, tuning ...

“Saltburn” star Barry Keoghan shouldn’t take too many drum lessons if he’s preparing to play Ringo Starr in the upcoming Beatles biopic — and that’s coming from the drummer, himself. The “Don’t Pass ...

Ringo Starr is ready to see Barry Keoghan play the drums… as Ringo Starr. The Beatle recently sat down for an interview with Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier, who asked Starr what he thinks of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When I was thirteen, I was in a deep depression. There was nothing that really made me happy, nothing ...

A historical marker at the site of the nightclub where Desi Arnaz launched his career and popularized the conga, in Miami Beach, Fla., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. A new historical marker in Miami Beach ...

Johnny Rodriguez, the most recorded percussionist in the world of Afro-Cuban based dance music (salsa), known by the sobriquet “Dandy," died on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada ...