Led by master drummer and dancer, Kerfala “Fana” Bangoura, the ensemble combines the iconic djembe hand drum with a trio of drums played with sticks, known as dunun, sangban, and kenkeni. The powerful ...

Simmons said the language of the [djembe] comes from how the drum is tuned, and your hand technique, and that today’s djembes are tuned too high. Those were the lessons he was passing on to Henderson ...