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 ...

"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 ...

The most famous Lancaster County native and musician you know little or nothing about might be Clair Omar Musser, the man who transformed marimba music. Musser’s collection of rare marimbas, ...

Heartland Marimba, the world's only touring classical marimba organization, is on the road with the sixth tour — “The Expanse Tour” — of their 11th season! In the new year, Heartland Marimba hits the ...

When Kacho Gama and his brother, Mongo, were teenagers they would groan when their father, Batuco, would announce that they had to don traditional Mexican outfits and play the marimba at a wedding.

The marimba is a large, wooden instrument from West Africa. Enslaved Africans carried the marimba tradition with them to Latin America, where it became an integral part of Latin American music, ...

It's fair to say that albums featuring the marimba as a lead instrument are fairly uncommon. As such, as unfair as it may be, Water And Fire comes with a certain novelty value. My primary exposure to ...

The pleasant, earthy sound of a marimba is a key component in the modern orchestra, but their high prices, ranging from ...

A benefit concert supporting Artist Advocacy Foundation will shake the timbers of Santa Ynez’s Maverick Saloon with the sounds of marimba and zydeco. One of the most unique presentations of hot, ...

BANDON — From loud rumblings that almost vibrate the walls, to high-pitched tinkling, sounds flow from the Harbor Lights Middle School music room on a recent afternoon. Nine students in grades fifth ...

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 ...

The instrument sat dusty and out of tune in the corner of a storage room. Its resonators were cracked, its bars unable to hold notes, and the layer of pig tripe fitted on the clay rings no longer ...