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2 disc set of Volume I Companion Discs for Arabic Tambourine book. Volume I Covers the cabaret tambourine
(1985; re-mastered 1999; disc released 2005)
Mary Ellen plays examples from the book and includes improvised tambourine solos.
Arabic Tambourine book and Volume II CD set sold separately.Volume 2 Covers the classical tambourine, tar, & mazhar
Mary Ellen Donald has been involved in Middle
Eastern music as a dance student and a musician since the late 1960's.
She is known by many as the "Guru of finger cymbal playing." Mary Ellen
studied dance with Jamila Salimpour, drum and tambourine with Vince
Delgado, Tony Lammam, and various Arab drummers. She has written,
produced and published several books and tapes on Middle Eastern music, including Arabic Tambourine.
Since the 1970's she has performed in numerous concerts, on albums
including Magda Helmy, Gallal Kutub, Yusel Mostafa, and Light Rain, and
on the soundtrack ABC-TV series, the Young Indiana Jones. Mary Ellen
continues to be in high demand as a musician, teacher, and organizer of
events. Her youthful vitality and highly developed sensitivity to music
may be partially attributed to her being legally blind.
Excerpt from The Caravan, Vol. 13, #6, May/June 1997
See and Hear Mary Ellen play the Tambourine on YouTube:
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