Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Beneath the rustling leaves of a majestic mango tree, Aliou Gassama teases a tune from an ancient African harp. Concentration chiseled across his face, he deftly navigates the 21 strings. Gassama is ...

Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp. It is mid-afternoon prayer in ...

“Nourishing Community From North Carolina to Africa” runs from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw. Admission is on a sliding scale from $10 to $100. In 2009, when ...

Banjul, the Gambia — Senegalese lady singers must have gone through a hard and stressing test before a serial list was obtained, and that's not to say that Coumba Gawlo's stand out status was out of a ...

Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp. It is mid-afternoon prayer in ...

Born into the Cissokho family of griots (some relatives spell it Sissoko or Cissoko), it would have been a challenge for Momi Maiga to imagine himself becoming a dentist or, really, anything other ...

Sean Gaskell will give a solo acoustic set on the Kora, an ancient 21-stringed harp from West Africa. Gaskell features traditional songs of the Mandinka people from Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and ...

The Amherst Public Library, 221 Spring St., will present a very special program with guest Sean Gaskell, according to a news release. Gaskell’s appearance will start at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 for a performance ...

“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp. It is mid-afternoon prayer in ...