Santeria rituals allow human beings to stay in contact with the Orishas. They include dancing, drumming, speaking and eating with the spirits. Santeria rituals allow human beings to stay in contact ...

Born Mark Underwood in Goshen, Ind., Otura Mun has lived on the island since 1999. He transforms his roots in R&B and jazz drumming into an intoxicating brew of electronics, percussion and vocals that ...

A rapid drum tattoo; then an improbably long female cry of “Sango-o-o”, protracted into a stumbling rhythm over which the voice shouts half-narrative, half-praise; a mixture that eventually resolves ...

What we're listening to is an invocation to Shango, one of the orishas or gods of the Yoruba people from Nigeria. Shango is the great god of thunder, and this is chanting in praise of him, calling him ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and his band, Bembé Orisha, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, at Purdue University. The performance been moved from Elliott Hall to ...

When Otura Mun plays music, notes and beats flow gently, precisely and with a powerful intentionality. A DJ, producer, composer and percussionist, Mun is an accomplished artist who worked with Puerto ...