Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

My introduction to music came by the way of my cousin Nathan Robinson aka "The Witch Doctor" when I was around 10 or 11 years old. I could sit and listen to him play all day. He gave me my first Conga ...

“JC” Johnny Conga, a Volcano Percussion endorsee, has been performing for 45 years, as a “multi-percussionist-specialist”, in the Art of Afro-Caribbean Drumming, and Latin-Jazz music. Some of the ...

BRATTLEBORO —The Brattleboro Music Center is offering African and Caribbean Drumming classes, beginning Monday, April 15. Students will experience the joy of drumming through African, Afro-Caribbean, ...