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Local non-profit SoCal Marimbas is dedicated to the promotion of marimba performance. And you can catch live performance at a 'marimba salon' near you. The backstory: A percussion instrument ...

Marimba, the melodious percussion instrument from Africa, is a craze sweeping Sonoma County elementary schools. Launched in a Petaluma school with just seven instruments in 2016, the local marimba ...

"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 ...

"In my opinion, it has significance or maybe relationships to African marimbas, but in a way, the marimba, now it has been made or reinterpreted by the Mayan people in Guatemala," said Juan Francisco ...

Marimba, the melodious percussion instrument from Africa, is a craze sweeping Sonoma County elementary schools. Marimba, the melodious percussion instrument from Africa, is a craze sweeping Sonoma ...