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, ...
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 ...
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Today’s Google Doodle focuses on the mbira instrument. Google Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a game wherein the user can “play” the mbira using their laptop or handheld device. Over hundreds of ...
The Center for World Music presents Mbira Bhururu: Songs of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Experience the rich cultural and musical heritage of Zimbabwe through the traditional sounds of the mbira ...
Upcoming United States-based Zimbabwean musician, Chengeto Brown, daughter to the late musicians, Andy Brown, and mbira maestro, Chiwoniso Maraire says she is following in her parents and famous ...
EVERY September, Zimbabwe vibrates with the haunting, soul-stirring sounds of the mbira, an ancient instrument central to the country’s musical and spiritual identity. Marked as Mbira Month, this time ...
Music is Culture is an unusual organization, dedicated to preserving and nurturing at-risk cultures around the world. Among their projects is one focused on the Ndau ethnic group in southern Zimbabawe ...
A popular Zimbabwean music outfit, Mokoomba, is expected to perform in several states in USA from next week until August 16 this year. The group with a variety of tunes, combined with waist wiggling ...