BRATTLEBORO -- Call it the rhythm track of the Localvore movement. On Friday and Saturday, The Cooperman Fife & Drum Company of Bellows Falls and The Loft in Brattleboro host Nafda North, a world ...

Layne Redmond pulls the small tambourine down from her wall, gives it a quick shake and then begins filling the room with incredibly intricate and captivating rhythms. In her hand, she has both an ...

Four time Grammy award winner, Glen Velez is the founding Father of the modern frame drum movement and is regarded as a legendary figure among musicians and audiences world-wide. Velez brought a new ...

The frame drum is the world’s oldest known instrument, say organisers of an upcoming workshops series, “extensively played by women throughout the Eastern Mediterranean for thousands of years.

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center Prominent in the annals of female frame drummers is the image ...

BRATTLEBORO -- This weekend, The Cooperman Drum Company of Bellows Falls and The Loft in Brattleboro will host NAFDA North 3, a frame drum festival featuring musicians from around the world.

“My life revolves within the six-inch diameter of the kanjira,” declares Ganesh Kumar, fresh from the experience of allowing the instrument mingle with members of its ilk from across the globe at the ...