Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20 ... or know about an artist or organization involved in community art-making, we want to hear from you in any or ...

“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 ... I started to learn to play the ...

Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an acclaimed conga master who perfected a dazzling five-drum technique with ... to the National School of Art in Havana, where he also had the chance ...

In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...

Giovanni Hidalgo has taken the art of playing congas to new heights with his ... What on earth are you going to hope to hear from a conga with nothing even resembling a drum to be seen? The answer is ...

By Holland Cotter I often remember big museum roundups of new art for a single standout entry ... it’s packed with freight — coconuts, conga drums, plastic buckets for storage or bailing ...

Before then, Chuck Brown’s percussionists played two large conga drums. Now there were four. What Jungle Boogie came up with next helped map out go-go’s rhythmic DNA. There are less ...

He was considered a towering figure on the congas, which are tapered drums played with the fingers and hands. His greatest innovation was to play more than one conga drum at a time, eventually ...