The members of Heartland Marimba don’t travel lightly. When they arrive at First Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon, they’ll be hauling four marimbas. A marimba is a wooden percussion instrument ...
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 ...
Stroll through Coralville's East Ridge Elementary School after hours and you’ll hear the warm, mellow, resonant tones of ...
The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...
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, ...
For anyone who isn’t familiar with the warm sound of the marimba, you’re in for a treat. Its bars are made of wood, and you ...
CARTHAGE, Mo. — Children played in a bounce house to the rhythm of marimba music in Central Park, while over at the pavilion attendees of the Maple Leaf Latino Festival sampled champurrado, a typical ...