If you take four slabs of wood, each the size of, say, a coffin lid, and cushion each one atop a wooden resonance chamber as large as a piano cabinet, what you end up with may look like a carpenter’s ...

Feb. 20 is Día Nacional de la Marimba in Guatemala. The instrument's importance as a symbol of resistance and cultural pride has taken on new... It's National Marimba Day In Guatemala — And For ...

Everything we learn, we learn rote,” Peggy Carlson said, discussing how the Zimbabwean marimba groups she leads in Fairbanks ...

SAN ANTONIO – A Judson ISD music teacher is introducing students to a new sound. For weeks, Park Village Blended Learning Academy students have been learning how to play the marimba. “It got difficult ...

To you, it might look like big xylophone. But to Matthew Coley, it’s “the grand soloist instrument of the percussion world.” It’s the marimba, and the focus of his ensemble of eight musicians. For ten ...

Bojan Hoover, a 20-year-old percussionist, has been playing the marimba for nine years and will perform with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra this weekend. Photo by KURT WILSON/Missoulian Click here to ...

The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly, coast to coast, from 1950 to 1957 on WABC. Gloria entertained her audience playing the marimba, organ and the singing glasses or glass harp. On Sunday ...

You definitely read that right- a band fronted by the three Gama brothers and their marimba, that fuses multi-hued Cumbia with punk in a way that on paper seems impossible but once you see them and ...