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When Cuba Became Home: Living Through the Pandemic in Havana
I moved to Havana in 2019, married my wife, and lived through the first months of COVID in Cuba. This is how the country treated me when life…
Journal
Drums · Music · Personal Blog Posts · travel
How Studying Percussion in Cuba Changed the Way I Hear Music
How years of studying and listening to Cuban percussion changed the way I hear clave, syncopation, triplets, rhythmic layering and the drum set.
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What 500 Ringling Bros. Shows Taught Me as a Drummer
What I learned about charts, click tracks, SPD-SX cues, recovery and endurance while playing more than 500 Ringling Bros. arena shows.
Personal Blog Posts · travel
Kauai, Tourism, and the Way We Travel
I’m writing this at the airport in Kauai after a family trip that was supposed to be mostly about getting away for a few days. Kauai is beautiful.…
Music · travel
Across Cuba: Matanzas, Santiago, Baracoa and the Music Between
This was one of the most ambitious Cuba trips my team and I had put together: two travelers, a route across much of the island, and a lot…
Music
Afro-Cuban Rumba is my favorite style of music…
Afro-Cuban Rumba is an essential style of Cuban Music. And also one of my favorite styles of music. It is actually what attracted me to study percussion in…
Music
My New Album, Coastal, will release December 8th, 2020
My new album, Coastal, is finally finished! It will be available digitally on December 8th, 2020. This is been a long journey, but a fun one! I am…
Drums · Music · Personal Blog Posts
I got married! Some new things happening: A new Patreon, Travel domain, and my album is almost done
It has been a while since I’ve posted on my personal blog, but I am hoping to change that. I have been super busy with a few things…
Music · Personal Blog Posts · travel
How Art, Music, and Culture are making positive changes in Colombia.
Depending on where you come from, you may think many different things about Colombia (The country.) In the American mind we seem to think of things like drugs,…
Music · Personal Blog Posts · travel
Music and Travel VLOG
I have been absolutely terrible at updating my BLOG, but that all changes now… As some of you have know I have been very busy building my cultural…