All types of American music - Jazz, Pop, Bluegrass, Gospel and Blues. Other world music such as French Impressionism, Reggae and Afrobeat, Fugal Counterpoint, karnatic and Indian classical music, Tuvan and Tibetan throat singing.
Sounds Like
The perfect sound for your upcoming wedding or event!
I started performing at age 6, when I sang The Monkees' "Daydream Believer"
at the Glenvar Elementary School Talent Show. I have been performing and
writing music ever since. After teaching myself theory as a teenager, I did
some session work as a drummer, bassist, and keyboardist, and played
classical percussion with the Roanoke and Lynchburg (Va.) Symphony
Orchestras. I attended Radford University from 1997 to 2000, where I studied jazz and classical percussion, as well as African hand drumming. Then I went to VCU and studied with T. Howard Curtis, a globally reknowned drummer, percussionist, writer and teacher. I majored in Drum Set and minored in Jazz Piano. After graduating in 2003, I moved to Austin with $20 and a van full of instruments. Since then I've played with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Particle, Shawn Nelson & The Ramblers, Ryan Bingham, LZ Love, Nelson Ray & Friends, The Portal, and more.
Over the years I have learned to play the drums, piano, bass, guitar,
mandolin, baritone ukulele, melodica, trombone, djembe, synthesizers,
tympani, vibraphone, marimba, kazoo and lots more. I've independently
released 3 solo CDs, "IS" (1999), "ON" (2003), and LEAVING & RETURNING
(2004), and an original opera entitled "TELEVISION & OTHER FORMS OF TIME
TRAVEL." I sing, write & play keyboards for a new Austin band called
PartyboobytraP. I also teach lessons at the Red Leaf School of Music in South Austin. Check out www.redleafschoolofmusic.com.
