Sentence examples for congo drums from inspiring English sources
At a ceremony in a suburban basement near Havana, Paulo da Silva, a santero in embroidered vestments, flexes from knee to knee to the beat of congo drums in tribute to Chango, the king of dance.
We've mentioned the lyrical talents of Sarah Palin before; the other night on Conan O'Brien, William Shatner stepped up to deliver the lines from Palin's farewell speech as verse, above the beat of congo drums and a bass fiddle.
It seems to work on Bennett – he makes praying gestures and stretches his hands to the Queen's theatre's corrugated iron roof – but even at the front, a dancefloor frenzy never quite kicks off, despite Bennett's intricate arrangement of bells, congos and thunderous bass drums.
Among Mr. Bey's many other movies were "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "Drums of the Congo" (1942), "White Savage" (1943), "Adventures of Casanova" (1948) and "Prisoners of the Casbah" (1953).
An underground rock supergroup of sorts, the Knoxville Girls (with Kid Congo Powers, Jerry Teel, Jack Martin, Gene Holder and the indie-drummer-cum-indie-actor Bob Bert) wield three guitars, Farfisa and harmonica, which they take on a similarly rickety journey of the backroads of the American South.
Players on congos riffed with others on electronic hand drums.
They use a lot of percussion, big drum sounds, congos and shakers.
