About Polly
If you’re curious about rhythm, especially the complex rhythms of international folk dance music, join renowned percussionist Polly Tapia Ferber to learn how to hear, count, and play a variety of dance patterns. Use any hand drum available: a doumbek, a djembe, an oatmeal box, a coffee can… Your feet know what to do, invite your hands and brain to come along!
Percussionist Polly Tapia Ferber is a music educator, performer, and recording artist who specializes in hand percussion from the Balkans, the Middle East, Turkey, North Africa, and Spanish Andalucia. She is noted for her melodic style of playing on several percussion instruments including the doumbek, frame drums, the Middle Eastern tambourine, and Spanish wooden box-drum (cajon). She is a member of several bands from New York to New Mexico, playing various musical styles.
Polly taught in the Contemporary Music Program at the College of Santa Fe, later the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, for over twenty years. Along with teaching percussion, she also taught World Music Survey courses, and directed the Balkan/Mid-East Ensemble. Along with her private students, she also teaches percussion at week- and weekend-long international seminars for folk dance groups. After the lull of the pandemic, Polly has gratefully resumed an active performing and recording schedule in the U.S.
Percussionist Polly Tapia Ferber is a music educator, performer, and recording artist who specializes in hand percussion from the Balkans, the Middle East, Turkey, North Africa, and Spanish Andalucia. She is noted for her melodic style of playing on several percussion instruments including the doumbek, frame drums, the Middle Eastern tambourine, and Spanish wooden box-drum (cajon). She is a member of several bands from New York to New Mexico, playing various musical styles.
Polly taught in the Contemporary Music Program at the College of Santa Fe, later the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, for over twenty years. Along with teaching percussion, she also taught World Music Survey courses, and directed the Balkan/Mid-East Ensemble. Along with her private students, she also teaches percussion at week- and weekend-long international seminars for folk dance groups. After the lull of the pandemic, Polly has gratefully resumed an active performing and recording schedule in the U.S.