Glen Davis

Glen has great rhythm. He bought a ThumbFunKalimba about a year ago and recently started playing the Hugh Tracey.

Listen to Fandango, a song that Glen Davis and I wrote in a Middle Eastern Mode with a D#. Glen played the HT TM Alto, and I played the HT Alto.

Deb Driskill

Deb Driskill has little formal musical training, but she and partner Mark use kalimba duets as an intimacy-building tool.

Listen to Deb Driskill and I play a song that we wrote for Treblito (a Treble Kalimba with only 9 notes) and Alto.

Della Estrada

Listen to Della Estrada and I play an original African-sounding song. Della is playing the HT Karimba and I am playing the guitar.

Jim Gates

Listen to Jim Gates and me play Jim's original Karimba piece titled Fanfare, Jim on HT Karimba and me on HT Alto Kalimba.

Listen to Jim Gates and me play our co-written songs Boulder Sunshine, Jim on guitar and me on the HT Alto Kalimba.

Mark Holdaway

Mark Holdaway is Kalimba Magic. While Mark plays a dozen different instruments at the performance level, the kalimba is the one that touches people’s hearts most deeply. In addition to writing an extensive series of kalimba instructional books and recording several CDs of kalimba music, Mark is half of the Arizona duo, The Holdouts (the other half is Jim Gates).

Listen to The Big Vibration. I play this on Alto Kalimba while telling the story of the Kalimba Klub and our series of duets. I had originally written The Big Vibration for the Kalimba Klub to play at the Folk Festival, but it turned out to be a solo, as the others were busy learning their own tunes!

Jordan McGary

Jordan is an amazing kid. He was my first student and in the process of working together we sort of tamed each other, helping each other to move on to a better place. A gift that came out of that was the kalimba tablature, one of the seeds of Kalimba Magic. If I hadn't met Jordan, I might very well not be doing Kalimba Magic. Jordan has performed at a wedding, at two Tucson Folk Festivals, on KXCI, at his school and at a professional dance performance. Listen to Jordan McGary and me play Walking in The Air. We're both playing the HT Alto Kalimba.