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NPR's science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how future sunscreens might come from fish, how loving art may impact aging, and a student's quest to build a more sustainable marimba.

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 ...

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.

"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 ...