ABOUT BARBARA BORDEN
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veteran of the Bay Area jazz and women's music scene, Ms.
Borden's versatility and appreciation for diverse musical
forms has led her to record and perform with the following
artists: Alive!---eight years---(Alive!, Call it
Jazz, City Life); Rhiannon (Toward Home); Terry
Garthwaite (Moving Day); Nicholas, Glover, & Wray (Nicholas,
Glover, & Wray & NGW Live). She
has also performed with: Layne Redmond, Arthur Hull,
Airto Moreira, Suru Eke, Babatunde Olatunje, Linda
Tillery, James Twyman, Kitka, Mimi Fox, Frank Martin,
Paquito d'Rivera, The Women's Philharmonic, Oberlin
Dance Company, and The Borden Twins (her sisters),
to mention a few.
Borden enjoys artistic collaborations
with many artists: dancers, authors, storytellers,
actors, poets, painters and healers. Some of these
artists have included: Vicki Noble, Christina Baldwin,
Ann Linnea, Arisika Razak, Anna Halprin, Ruth Zaporah,
Nina Wise, China Galland, Deena Metzger, Rachel Bagby,
Naomi Newman, and Laura Simms.
Ms. Borden has been in the vanguard
of presenting drumming in solo performance as
well as in combination with other art forms. In her
performance piece, All Hearts Beating, she
invited the audience to participate in percussion and
vocal improvisation to which they responded enthusiastically.
Borden continues to perform her one-woman autobiographical
percussion play, She Dares to Drum.
