And so Libana began. Over the years, however, the focus of the group changed to emphasize the research and performance of mostly traditional music. Robbins defines traditional music as the folk music of a given culture. Traditional music is part of the collective cultural contribution. It is not attributed to any one person.
Traditional music passes along a history, love stories, life cycles and work songs.
It is about the quality of life. One of Libana's major purposes in making music is to find and present music that people can sing for themselves in their families, communities and choirs. Libana is a creative community in itself. What we actually do reflects the lives of many, many women in communities around the world who sing and dance together. Robbins says that some of the pieces that they perform in concerts are works that they have sung, played and danced for many years.