My life in music has taken me to many places. I've played my drums for thousands on the big, lighted stage and for just a few in small, intimate mountain cafes. I've chanted inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. I've played my flutes to the setting sun of the winter solstice on the coast of Washington and to the summer sun of the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. I've baked in the summer heat and frozen in the autumn rain to make that most amazing form of communication and creativity, music. Music can change your state of mind, it can calm you, energize you, or take you to far off places and memories. It can be your refuge when everything else is gone.
I've always been fascinated and inspired by sounds. From an early age I was especially drawn to drums and percussion instruments and that has become a lifelong passion. I studied percussion at Mount Allison University, receiving my Bachelor of Music in 1993. I spent a year at St. Francis Xavier University to focus on drum set jazz styles before moving to Vancouver the next year. The west coast gave me many more musical experiences, including touring throughout Canada, the UK and the US, recording and performing with many artists in a variety of musical styles from rock to jazz to world music.
I discovered yoga in 2008 and soon recognized the common ground it has with music and drumming in particular. Movement, body awareness, breathing and the inner workings of the mind...all important aspects of drumming. It wasn't long before I could see how my passion for sounds could now come full circle. Along with the drums, I was now being drawn to the meditative tones of crystal bowls and the song of the Native American flute. These additions to my musical palette balanced a melodic side to the rhythm of the drums.
I've always been fascinated and inspired by sounds. From an early age I was especially drawn to drums and percussion instruments and that has become a lifelong passion. I studied percussion at Mount Allison University, receiving my Bachelor of Music in 1993. I spent a year at St. Francis Xavier University to focus on drum set jazz styles before moving to Vancouver the next year. The west coast gave me many more musical experiences, including touring throughout Canada, the UK and the US, recording and performing with many artists in a variety of musical styles from rock to jazz to world music.
I discovered yoga in 2008 and soon recognized the common ground it has with music and drumming in particular. Movement, body awareness, breathing and the inner workings of the mind...all important aspects of drumming. It wasn't long before I could see how my passion for sounds could now come full circle. Along with the drums, I was now being drawn to the meditative tones of crystal bowls and the song of the Native American flute. These additions to my musical palette balanced a melodic side to the rhythm of the drums.
