Versatile Drummer

Middletown, RI

$100 and up

Travels up to 60 miles

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Tournament of Roses Parade 2024. Pipes on Parade

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Tournament of Roses Bandfest, 2023. Pipes on Parade

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Old Colony Highlanders Pipe Band- Capital District Scottish Festival 2022

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Bubblegum Villains- The Rhode Show

Overview

I am a drummer of many styles and genres. Behind the kit I can play most styles of Rock, Pop, Funk, Blues, Swing, Jazz, Bossa Nova, etc. As a pipe band drummer, I can easily accompany your bagpiper for weddings, funerals and graduations.


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Booking information

Price range: $100 and up

What to expect

Professionalism. I am musically prepared to play what the event requires. I come to gigs early for set up. I bring professional level equipment. I dress appropriately for the venue or event I'm hired to perform. I am flexible with last minute changes as no event ever truly goes according to schedule. I am always asked to come back for future events with clients.

About

I am a percussionist with over 30 years of playing experience. After high school, I attended the University of New Hampshire, performing with the marching band, symphonic band and pep band. Since college, I began playing in fife and drum corps, bagpipe bands and rock bands around New England. I have traveled around the country and Europe playing and performing at high profile events. I traveled to Almansa, Spain to perform in historical reenactments and teach a workshop of American Rudimental drumming. I marched the 2024 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena California with Pipes on Parade as one of the Lead Drummers. I currently play with the Old Colony Highlanders Pipe Band in Massachusetts and the Kentish Guards Fife and Drum Corps in Rhode Island. In the mid 2000s, I played with a three piece pop punk band, Bubblegum Villains.
We traveled and played at venues all across New England. We were nominated "Best New Band" in 2008 by Motif Magazine. Recently, I've been guest drumming with various bands and dueling piano groups.

When I'm not performing, I teach percussion classes at the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School in Franklin, Massachusetts. I also work with the Fifes and Drums of the Lincoln Minutemen, Portsmouth High School and Falmouth High School Marching Bands and the American Drum Company as a Percussion Instructor as well as Camp Clark in Plymouth Massachusetts as the Camp Music Coordinator.

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