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Marla Leigh

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Marla Leigh's music takes you on an ancient trance ~ percussive experience. Her music features percussive instruments from around the world, mixed with ethnic and western flutes, electronica ,voice and other wordly instruments. Marla has traveled around the world performing (with her ensemble and other groups)at festivals such as the Harmony Festival, Earth Day Festival, Los Angeles, Hawaii Healing Festival and the Luzerne Music Festival. She has played with world music artists such as Suzanne Sterling, Shimshai, Karnamrita Dasi, David Stringer and Hamsa Lila. She also organizes/teaches drumming retreats in beautiful places around the world.
Marla is currently working on her debut album, which will feature music from an upcoming journey to North Africa and the Middle East, to be released Spring 2009. Marla has recently *Time Zone, an instructional DVD (with Ken Shorley) for Frame Drum and Darabuka and has also collaborated on various CD's. She also recently designed her own Signature series frame drum from Cooperman Co (available March 2008).
Marla plays Middle Eastern percussion (frame drum, riq), African percussion (Ghanaian style, Dgembe), Indian percussion (tabla, kanjira), unique hybrid world percussion "drumset ups", Western Flutes and other worldly flutes. She received a BFA and MFA from CalArts, and has studied with such percussion geniuses as Glen Velez, John Bergamo, Pandit Swapan Chadruhi, Ladzekpo brothers and Randy Gloss.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/01/2006
Band Website: http://www.marlaleigh.com
Influences: WORLD MUSIC: Pandit Swapan Chaudrhi, Tabla Beat Science, Omar Faruk Tekbek, Hasaan Hakmoon, Zakir Hussain, Traditional Morrocan, Turkish, West African and Indan Musics of all kind, water, birds, spirit, Dead Can Dance, Vas, Sheva, Hamsa El Din, Glen Velez, Sheila Chandra, Hamsa Lila, Hand's Onsemble, Peter Gabriel, Husky dogs, Rochester, NY, trees, wind, silence, breathe, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, making love, rain, pat metheny, Debussy, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Telleman, Bach, Ravel, Bartok, kissing, raw chocolate, coconuts, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, organic red wine, the unknown....

New Marla Tar from Cooperman Co, lap style solo

Sounds Like: a nice glass of wine on a sunny day, a puppy playing in the grass, ocean waves, a symphony of chocolate...
Record Label: Inner Rhythms

My Blog

ARTICLE BY MARLA IN TOPANGA MAGAZINE, Sept 2008

Marla wrote a featured article in Topanga Magazine's September 2008 issue on "The Art and Ritual of Drumming".Check out the article at http://www.marlaleigh.com
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:57:00 GMT

INTERVIEW WITH MARLA ON YOGAMATES

Check out this interview I did with Yogamates!!http://www.yogamates.com/music/14/Thank you for your support, Malra
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:44:00 GMT

NAFDA: Frame Drum Convention USA, offering Scholarship

This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who is interested in learning more about frame drumminng... I will be teaching at this..2nd year it is happening, was sooo much fun last year...hope to see y...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:14:00 GMT