Wedding March
A couple of years ago today, my husband and I decided it would be nice to have a small wedding ceremony to go along with our marriage...
Guest Blog Series #3: Shawn Mativetsky
Talking Tabla A guest blog post by Shawn Mativetsky www.shawnmativetsky.com I'd like to start off by thanking Gina for inviting me to...
Hand Castanets #1
I discovered the castanets twenty years ago and fell in love with their unique sound, as well as with flamenco music. I began studies...
Guest Blog Series: #2 diastemas for marimba
alcides lanza …diastemas [2005-I], for marimba and electroacoustic sounds …diastemas [2005-I] was written for Gina Ryan in response to...
Guest Blog Series: #1 Ben Reimer
My name is Ben Reimer and I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where I teach percussion at McGill University and play in the group Architek...
Awesome people doing awesome things!
I am excited to announce a new 2018 series that I will be featuring on my blog. Each month I will invite a guest blogger to share...
8 Tips: How to become - and stay - a percussion coach (in schools)
I loved my years as a percussion coach in Toronto and Montreal. I was lucky enough to work with some amazing educators and students at...
Marimba Bars and Bangkok
For the past several years as I play my marimba, I think/cringe, “I should really send these bars off for their tuning.” When I was in...
Lazy percussionist = house concerts
I really like to perform publicly, but I equally dread moving my many percussion instruments (aka gear). Taking them apart, loading them...
New career as a TV star?
No, but we did get a chance to talk about how to make a natural swimming pool in the tropics. My bit is in English, but for the record, I...
