UPDATE: This just in! Because of weather-related issues, SoNA will perform a modified program Saturday evening with tabla master Sandeep Das and a chamber orchestra. Ticket holders who want to make ...

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 ...

The dense forests near a small village in eastern India reverberated with chanting and the beating of drums as hundreds of ...

Indian musician Zakir Hussain, a four-time Grammy award winner credited with turning tabla drums into an instrument loved globally, has died at the age of 73, officials said Monday. Hussain ...

Let's Go Swimming uses traditional Middle-Eastern frame drumming techniques, the modern style of frame drumming revolutionized by Glen Velez, Persian Zarb techniques and Indian drumming techniques.

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 ...