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Students perform marimba at festival

Published 1:30 pm Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen/ Rosie Sharpe, arts and music teacher at Five Acre School of Sequim, leads students in a marimba song at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles last Friday. Marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound.
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Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen/ Rosie Sharpe, arts and music teacher at Five Acre School of Sequim, leads students in a marimba song at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles last Friday. Marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound.
Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen
Rosie Sharpe, arts and music teacher at Five Acre School of Sequim, leads students in a marimba song at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles last Friday. Marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound.

Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen

Rosie Sharpe, arts and music teacher at Five Acre School of Sequim, leads students in a marimba song at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles last Friday. Marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound.