ABOUT BARBARA BORDEN

Barbara Borden brings new meaning to the word drummer by combining her musicality, spontaneity, wisdom and humor with the power of the drum. As a carrier of the drum, Borden's deep connection to the Great Heartbeat of Life expresses the spectrum from ancient ritualistic to modern drumming. Her pulsing, polyrhythmic artistry combines heaven and earth revealing an original and innovative drumming style that moves and entertains. In performance and on recordings, her listeners are captivated as stories and images unfold through her unmistakable full round sound---her beauty in the beat.

Borden began drumming at age ten. Her life-long passion for music and the percussive arts has taken her along the following musical avenues: Partner in Cloud 9 Music with Sheilah Glover---Borden composed and produced her own music on the following recordings: Beauty in the Beat (1996), All Hearts Beating (1991); Borden & Glover's Lady of the Serpent Skirt (1990), Portraits of Passion (1992). Borden's solo album,Beauty in the Beat,is a blend of forty acoustic drums and percussion instruments from around the world with Borden playing them all. Each thoughtfully composed piece contains its own brand of melody, harmony and rhythm that create worlds of beauty in her beat.

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