Music Resources

• Afropop Worldwide:  Georges Collinet weekly radio show.

• Afromix - A database of music from Africa and the Caribbean.

• AIT Records - Traditional and contemporary Ethiopian music.

• Amampondo - Award-winning traditional Xhosa percussion group from Cape Town, South Africa.

• Centre for African Music and Videos - UK based specialists in African and Gospel music and arts.

• Cora Connection - Cora Connection provides information on the folk music traditions of West Africa. Cora Connection sells hard to find recordings, professional quality instruments and offers educational workshops.

• Dandemutande - Dandemutande: A resource for lovers of Zimbabwean marimba and mbira music, including a calendar of events worldwide, a resource guide, a mail order catalog, and articles about the music, the instruments, and the people who play them.

• East African Music - A site devoted to Kenyan and Tanzanian popular music: Descriptions of the music, discographies, audio files, and the Samba

• The International Library of African Music: a music resource.

• MBIRA, non-profit organization for Shona mbira music - Traditional Shona mbira music of Zimbabwe: educational info, concerts and workshops, field recordings catalog. Organization supports traditional musicians in Zimbabwe.

• The Mbira Page - This is a resource for people around the world who have an interest in Mbira, Marimba and Chimurenga styles of music from the indigenous cultures of Zimbabwe. Related topics, Shona and Ndebele customs, Shona language and literature, traditions and beliefs as they relate to mbira music is also discussed. The content on Solomon Murungu's Mbira Page(s)is outstanding.

• Motherland Music's Imported African Musical Instruments - Motherland Music imports high quality handcrafted African drums and other musical instruments from Ghana, Nigeria, The Ivory Coast, Morocco, and Togo from djembes to xylophones

• South African Music on music.org.za - A-Z index of artists, photo gallery, news & events in South African music. African, Jazz, Hip Hop and more ....

• Village Pulse: specializes in digital recordings of West African drummers.