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Published October 14, 2018 at 1440 × 300 in cropped-website-logo-2.jpg.
Welcome to MandaraMusic.com, the website of Percussionist, vocalist, clinician and composer Valerie Naranjo; multi-instrumentalist/composer Barry Olsen; their group Mandara, and Mandara Music Publishing.

“If you've ever had the split-second opportunity to spy Naranjo in action when SNL cuts to a commercial break, you've witnessed a blur of energy behind a fortress of percussion.” —Andy Doershuk, DRUM! Magazine, May 2005
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