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About Me

I'm originally from Winnipeg, and have lived in Vancouver for the past 11 years. Here are some of the projects I've played drums with in that time: John Wozniak (Marcy Playground), Issa (AKA Jane Siberry), Kelly Rowland (of Destiny's Child), Hannah Georgas, Motion Soundtrack, Adrienne Pierce, Lily Frost, Nat Jay, Winston, Rick Waines, Mark Berube, The Painted Birds, Christa Couture, David Blaire, Stephen Hedley, Patrick Brealey, Eileen Rothe, Bocephus King, Justine Bennett, Mike Weterings, Andrew Allen, Chantel Upshaw, Ben Sigston, Jenny Galt, Amanda Rheaume, Fariba, The Abramson Singers, Joe Cameron, RC, and, Toys On Film.....some of the producers I've worked with: Thom Russo (Audioslave, Johnny Cash), Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Jimmy Page), Jeff Dawson (Daniel Powter, Kelly Rowland), Howard Redekopp (New Pornographers, Teagan and Sara), Vince Jones (Alanis Morissette, Dave Gahan), Bill Bell (Jason Mraz, Tara MacLean), Ryan Guldemond (Mother Mother, Rick Waines), Mathew Yelton (Pixies, Frank Black), John Ellis (Barney Bentall, Jane Siberry), Winston Hauschild (Hey Ocean!, Hannah Georgas), Shawn Cole (You Say Party! We Say Die!, Bend Sinister), Hipjoint Productions (Kresha Turner), and, Futcher (The Be Good Tanyas). I have regularly performed in the Vancouver International Jazz Festival with such artists as Bruno Hubert, Steve Fisk, and George McFetrich, as well as having recorded with Experimental Jazz artists Marilyn Lerner and Peggy Lee.

My Blog

Rick Waines record

Hello, Just wanted to let you know about a fantastic record I got to play on a few months ago with an artist named, Rick Waines. http://www.myspace.com/rickwainesWe tracked the drums, bass, some guit...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:08:00 GMT

Andrew Allen recording

Hello, A little while ago I had the pleasure to head into Mushroom studios with Jeff Dawson (producer) to work with a very talented artist, Andrew Allen. He just posted a bunch of the tracks we did...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Justine Bennett

Hey YO. A little while ago I had a blast recording with San Fran singer-songwriter, Justine Bennett. She made a little documentary of her experience recording with us in Vancouver, and here it is......
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:15:00 GMT

new releases

Hello, Just a quick update about a few recordings I played on...I'm eagerly awaiting my own copy of Issa's (A.K.A. Jane Siberry) new record, 'Dragon Dreams'. I played drum set on a few tracks for this...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:28:00 GMT

its been a while...

hmm, I guess I have been neglecting this page. I post most stuff on my co-writing page, but I have been up to quite a bit in the drumming world, so....recently, I've done a few more recordings with p...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:54:00 GMT

’I Burned the Bed’

A while back I played drums on quite a few tunes for John Wozniak's first solo record. A lot of you might know John from his band, Marcy Playground ('Sex and Candy'). Much about John's solo record c...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:05:00 GMT

Kispiox fun

I just got back from playing the Kispiox Folk Fest with Christa Couture.Christa also had the very talented, Aaron Joyce on guitar, and Michael Paterson on double bass. We played two full band sets on ...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:54:00 GMT

Kelly Rowland

This last week I had the great pleasure of playing drums on a new Kelly Rowland (Destiny's Child) track. It was produced and mixed by Jeff Dawson, but also features the very fine playing of Darren Par...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:51:00 GMT

recording with Laura Smith

I did a fun session about a month ago with Bill Bell producing a talented young singer named, Laura Smith. We did three songs at Mushroom with Rene Worst on bass, and she just posted them. Check them ...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:49:00 GMT

recording with Lorilee DeSchryver

A few months ago I played drums on a few tracks with Lorilee DeSchryver.Ryan Hauschild produced them at Lap Monkey Studio with Dr.Boss, and Joel Myers was playing bass. Lorilee was just so cool to wo...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:06:00 GMT