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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This is part of a series, Spotlight on Schools, aimed at featuring some of the programs or lessons happening in Medfield schools outside of conventional learning. Energetic performances ...