Bernard Woma plays the xylophone from northern Ghana called the gyil. Like the bala from Guinea and Mali, the gyil has gourd resonators that have…
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Artist Profiles: Aja Addy
Aja Addy was born 1948 in Accra, Ghana. He was an acclaimed Ghanaian master drummer and percussionist. Influenced by his work as a tigari priest,…
View More Artist Profiles: Aja AddyArtist Profiles: Guy One
Ghanaian musician Guy One built up a fervent following in local villages amongst the Frafra people in northern Ghana, in which no funeral or wedding…
View More Artist Profiles: Guy OneMaster Drummers of Dagbon, V. 1 Reissued for Digital Distribution
Rounder Records has reissued the album Master Drummers of Dagbon, V. 1 by Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulai & the Master Drummers of Dagbon. The reissue is…
View More Master Drummers of Dagbon, V. 1 Reissued for Digital DistributionArtist Profiles: Adikanfo
Adikanfo is a traditional music and dance style from Ghana. The cultural group Adikanfo from Ghana has taken upon itself to preserve a choice selection…
View More Artist Profiles: AdikanfoArtist Profiles: Aaron Bebe Sukura
Aaron Bebe Sukura is a Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist (harp-lute, thumb-piano, bamboo flute, guitar, xylophone). He recorded Nyong, a solo album devoted to acoustic Highlife from Ghana…
View More Artist Profiles: Aaron Bebe SukuraGhana’s 50th is also drummer Yacub Addy’s 50th year as a stage artist
It didn’t occur to me until the January 26, 2007 segment of Dick Gordon’s radio program “The Story” was broadcast in the U.S. Friday, that…
View More Ghana’s 50th is also drummer Yacub Addy’s 50th year as a stage artist