Shona Mbira Music Nonesuch Explorer Series 79710-2 2002 (1977) Listeners curious about the way mbira music develops should pay close attention to this recording. The first two tracks isolate the ...

MBIRA music, considered an integral part of the Zimbabwean cultural heritage, appears to be here to stay, judging from the interest it continues to attract both at home and abroad.

Her journey also reflects the circular nature of mbira music, which has no phrases, ... The mbira is a 1,000-year-old instrument made from a handheld hardwood soundboard ...

Harare — The two-day Mbira Music Festival held at the Coronation Park in Harare at the weekend pointed the way mbira music is heading. The festival, hosted by Red Rose Entertainment, saw more ...

Be Soothed by the Music of the Zimbabwean Mbira in Today’s Google Doodle The mbira is Zimbabwe's national instrument; it produces a soothing sound that's a perfect balm for our current global ...

How do groups like the Grateful Dead come up with their songs? Sometimes it's as simple as listening to music from other cultures. "I Bid You Goodnight, " one of the Dead's more popular numbers ...

The Mbira Renaissance Band performs at a music festival in Salmon Arm, B.C. (Submitted by Chaka Zinyemba)"There's always this bit of conflict that comes through because I was raised Catholic.

September is a month which we dedicate to celebrating the mbira instrument. Zimbabwe has been highly associated with mbira music as it has seen great artists and legends like Chiwoniso Maraire ...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to fully appreciate a culture’s traditions. In 1972 American musician and budding ethnomusicologist Paul Berliner traveled to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) to study the ...

In the early 1960s, when Stella Chiweshe was a teenager in the southern African country of Zimbabwe, she wanted to learn mbira -- a thumb piano with metal keys that was used primarily in spirit ...

The Zimbabwean musician bringing the marimba and mbira to township youth. In Dzivarasekwa, Jacob Mafuleni hopes music can help break the cycle of drugs and teen pregnancy plaguing the settlement.