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  • One of my friends played the pandero or tambourine and I said ‘Hey, can I give that a try?’ and he said ‘Yeah.’

    Basque Musical Traditions Updated in Idaho 2011

  • One of my friends played the pandero or tambourine and I said ‘Hey, can I give that a try?’ and he said ‘Yeah.’

    Basque Musical Traditions Updated in Idaho 2011

  • Mi padre tenia un carnero y lo mando a matar, de el cuero saco un pandero y lo que fuere sonara!

    And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Esta Plena, as the pandero drums hold the band to an intense metrical pace throughout.

    PopMatters Aaron Basiliere 2010

  • The song that follows, the album's title track, seems to function as a companion piece to the instrumental ferocity heard on "Palmeras", while incorporating the surprisingly cohesive vocal talents of Zenon and his band mates, while the swaying melodicism of "Pandero Y Pagode" belongs, solely, to the pandero-swatting vocalists, as they flawlessly fill out the top of Zenon's complex, yet graceful, composition.

    PopMatters Aaron Basiliere 2010

  • Zenon and his seasoned company of players-bassist Hans Glawischnig, pianist Luis Perdomo, and drummer Henry Cole-are joined by accomplished pandero hand drum-rapping crooners Juan Gutierrez, Obanilu Allende, and Hector Matos as they, collectively, bring back to prominence the age-old Puerto-Rican folk style known as plena.

    PopMatters Aaron Basiliere 2010

  • Plena, a folk form that once had such topical lyrics it could serve as a kind of musical newspaper, is rooted in the brisk rhythms of the pandero, a tambourine-like hand drum that traditionally comes in three sizes.

    Chicago Reader 2009

  • Catherina Meigengra, the market-woman who plays the _pandero_ in the market-place, the peasant girls with pretentious names coming down to market basket on head from the hills, the shrew Branca and the timid wife Marta, the two irrepressible Lisbon fishwives, the voluble _saloia_ who sells milk well watered and charges cruel prices for her eggs and other wares, the country priest's greedy 'wife' who eats the baptism cake and is continually roasting chestnuts, the mystical ingenuous little shepherdess Margarida who sees visions on the hills, the superior daughter of the peasant judge who had once spoken to the King, the small

    Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501

  • Tickets: 400-430 Kč, available through Ticketpro, at the venue and online at Recorded practically a year ago, the recording pairs Lovano - now a professor himself at Berklee - with a group of younger musicians he asked to make Folk Art with him: James Weidman on piano; Esperanza Spalding on bass; Otis Brown III on drums, bells and assorted gongs; and Francisco Mela on drums and a variety of percussion instruments that includes the pandero

    The Prague Post 2009

  • Tickets: 400-430 Kč, available through Ticketpro, at the venue and online at Recorded practically a year ago, the recording pairs Lovano - now a professor himself at Berklee - with a group of younger musicians he asked to make Folk Art with him: James Weidman on piano; Esperanza Spalding on bass; Otis Brown III on drums, bells and assorted gongs; and Francisco Mela on drums and a variety of percussion instruments that includes the pandero

    The Prague Post 2009

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