Every Monday at Magic 13 Brewery, about an hour before rehearsal, members of Miamibloco walk back and forth from a parked ...

A drum circle begins. In the Marshfield Senior Center, music therapist Sam Roane teaches seniors in the Memory Cafe how to play the African djembe drum together.

the pounding of a West African djembe drum. Yet the group’s music also consistently evolved. Their breakout hit, the 2005 album “Dimanche à Bamako,” had chatty spoken asides, sirens ...