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NewsBeat- Siberia - Barbara Borden Reports
“Why Siberia? What was it that brought you to this faraway land?” I’ve been asked this question many times. I will attempt an answer as I describe my journey to Khakassia to play music and spend 10-days with a Siberian shaman accompanied by David L. Brown, filmmaker of Keeper of the Beat. with Siberian shaman Tatiana...

Shooting with Shamans
Awaiting take off from Moscow's Sheremetievo Airport (homeward bound after 16 days that seemed like 16 weeks), I'm thinking about the 10 days spent filming my friend, drummer Barbara Borden. The footage will be part of Keeper of the Beat, my feature doc on the life and music of Barbara, who had been participating in an extraordinary workshop on ecology-based shamanism and sacred places in the Russian republic of Khakassia, a breathtakingly beautiful spot in southwestern Siberia.