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Percussionist Polly Tapia Ferber is a music educator, performer, and
recording artist who specializes in hand percussion from the Middle
East, Turkey, North Africa, the Balkans, and Spanish Andalucia. She is
noted for her melodic style of playing on darabukah (middle-eastern
goblet drum), frame drum, riqq (middle-eastern tambourine), and cajon
(Spanish wooden box-drum).
She has traveled to Egypt, Greece, Spain, Morocco, and Israel, seeking
out the finest teachers and performing with some of the world's most
renowned musicians. In 2003 she toured southern Spain with the
middle-eastern/jazz fusion trio TRANSITION. She was voted Santa Fe's
Best Local Musician by the Santa Fe Reporter in 1997.
Polly maintains an active performing and teaching schedule in the
United States. For the past twenty years she has been a regular
instructor at the East European Folklife Center's annual east coast and
west coast Balkan camps, and at the Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp
in Mendocino, California.
She is currently a member of several New York-based bands and
ensembles, including ORKESTRA KEYIF, MERAK, EROS TAKSIMI and TRANSITION.
She is on the faculty at the College of Santa Fe in the Contemporary
Music Program where she teaches percussion, is developing classes in
World Music and Women in Music, and also directs the MidEast/Balkan
Ensemble.
Her extensive list of recordings includes "Near East Far West," "Tulku
2," "Inlakesh," "ShamanSong," "Dezeo," "Buddah Bar," and "Anoush."
Polly Tapia Ferber divides her time between Santa Fe and New York.
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