Popularly known by his totem Hungwe, which refers to the fish eagle, Lovemore Salari is an unsung mbira maestro — being a ...

Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...

Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...

A conversation between scholar Umi Vaughan and author Mahealani Uchiyama in celebration of the release of her book The Mbira, An African Musical Tradition. The book is an overview steeped in the ...

Two visiting artists will bring Zimbabwean music for the mbira — a traditional instrument that has been popular in that part of Africa for centuries — to the Pitzer Center on the UC Davis campus at 2 ...

A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preserve wisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19. By Jon Pareles This obituary is part of a series ...

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HARARE, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Inside a pub in Harare, a harmonic rhythm of traditional musical instruments echoed off the walls. In one of the guest rooms, Virimai Nhedega, a traditional Zimbabwean ...

Bingham Art Gallery will be hosting an evening of Shona mbira music at 5 p.m. on Sunday with guest Patience Munjeri and MU’s Chiyedza Mbira Ensemble. A mbira is a type of thumb piano from Zimbabwe ...