For once, you get true high-end audio at an affordable price point; the Marimba just sounds like an expensive speaker. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end ...

As Michigan Philharmonic percussionists, Lynn Koch and Kristen Tait play everything from triangles to cymbals, drums to tambourine to xylophone and chimes. Tait once even played a 10-speed bicycle in ...

Why does baroque music sound so good on the marimba? Maybe it's because, as a percussion instrument, the marimba clearly articulates the precise subdivision of the beat in baroque music. Or it may be ...

"Everything we learn, we learn rote,” Peggy Carlson said, discussing how the Zimbabwean marimba groups she leads in Fairbanks learn each piece of music they play by memory. “There’s really very little ...

I vividly remember the first time I heard marimba music. I was enchanted with the sound — similar to steel drums but with a wooden tone and resonance. With its South African roots, the music was so ...

In Zimbabwe, the marimba is more than just an instrument; it is a living symbol of cultural identity, social cohesion, and creative innovation. Rooted in Shona and Ndebele musical traditions, the ...

For thousands of years groups of people around the world have played music on percussion instruments for rituals, dances, ceremonies, and just for fun. But as the percussionist Daniel Druckman wrote ...

Oct. 8—The vibrant sounds of Africa are coming to Superior this month as Kunda! Marimba, Drum & Dance brings its infectious rhythms and high-energy performance to the LDS Church at 117 Moats Lane on ...

Reporting from Tumaco, Colombia — The performing style of the man Angel Marino calls the greatest marimba player ever may help explain why the instrument is so obscure outside the villages along ...