Reese Carr/redd runnings

A drummer, with over 25 years experience, Reese has had the good fortune to play some of the finest venues in the world, such as Lincoln Center, and The Apollo Theater, performing in front of names as big as Roberta Flack and Bill and Hillary Clinton. He’s also recorded and toured through out Italy with Jazz singer Amalia Gre’, for EMI records. He’s currently drumming for the rock band, “Pagoda”, signed to "ESTATIC PEACE RECORDS", formed by THURSTON MOORE, of the legendary alt rock group, "SONIC YOUTH". Reese works with a unique, diverse, international network of talented artists of all kinds, from musicians, to filmmakers to painters to poets to actors to dancers, etc., which he has organized into an arts activism alliance called REDD RUNNINGS. Many of these artists, or "Redd Runners" as they refer to themselves, are multi-talented renaissance people, with more than one talent, such as painters who are also musicians, or dancers who also actors, etc. You can see the diverse body of work displayed by some of these artists in Reese's "FRIENDS SPACE", such as the work of WILLHAM PAREDES, an artist, painter and tattoo artist, with his own shop in Brooklyn called, "BROOKLYN TATTOO, who's also the bassist for the rock band, "PAGODA" (click pages labeled "BROOKLYN TATTOO", "WILLY" and "PAGODA"), and "SPEX BOOGIE" (click page labeled "SPEX BOOGIE"), an artist as well as a legendary hip-hop dancer/instructor. Other visual artists down with Redd Runnings, who also work with Willy at his shop, are ADAM SUERTE (click page labeled, "ADAM), YOSHIMIYO (click "YOSHIMIYO"). A prime subdivision of Redd Runnings, is "SUB/HITTERS", a rhythmic alliance of underground percussionists (click their PAGE below), which includes Reese on the Djembe drum, hoofers Dolores Sanchez, a.k.a. LOLA( open up Reese's FRIEND'S SPACE to click LOLA PAGE), Parker Hall (CLICK "PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE") and Maud Arnold (Click "MAUDIE POOH"), "RE:PERCUSSIONISTS" (open "MAURICE J CARR" page, and check out the SECOND VIDEO DOWN), A two-man percussion group including Reese and RYAN DONOWHO (percussionist, producer and actor), legendary innovator of bucket drumming, Larry Wright (CLICK "VIDEOS" UNDER REESE'S DISPLAY PICTURE TO SEE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF LARRY WRIGHT PERFORMING IN REESE'S VIDEO LIBRARY), and "INI DRUMLINK", an afro carribean drum group (view all of Reese's friends in his FRIEND'S SPACE, to click the I-N-I DRUMLINK PAGE), in which Reese plays djembe drum with his mentor and group founder, jamaican master djembe drummer, Jeremiah Iriemiah, and Yuichi Iida, a drummer from Japan(click page called "BROWN RICE" in Reese's FRIEND'S SPACE to find out more about Yuichi), and renown master percussionist DANIEL SADOWNICK, who's played and recorded with Steely Dan and Ron Carter. Also down with the ecclectic "Runnings family", is "PAGODA", the rock band Reese drums for (click their PAGE "PAGODA" below) and alternative cutting edge band BATTLES (click "BATTLES" in Reese's "FRIENDS SPACE"), featuring JOHN STANIER, former drummer of the rock band HELMET . "STUDIO SIXES AND SEVENS"(click PAGE below), is the production studio and Redd Runnings workspace, shared by Reese, and co-producer SETH BLADIMIRSQUY(click SETH in Reese's FRIENDS SPACE), out of which Pagoda, as well as other "Redd Runners" work. In addition to producing and playing in various musical projects through Redd Runnings, Reese has also taught and held after school drum workshops around the city called, “A Journey Through Rhythm”, for children from the ages of 5 and up, as well as adults. He usually facilitates these rhythm workshops with his percussion alliance, SUB/HITTERS. He continues to take his workshops to children and adults, around the city, as well as overseas. Redd Runnings continues to organize creative projects and events showcasing the work of all of it's artists, from musical project and shows, to independent short and feature length film and video projects, and festivals, to art shows, to drum pow-wows in the park, to educational seminars and workshops for rhythm, acting, spiritual healing, better living, etc. The "Runnings" movement has emerged to bring back the art/culture renaissance to the world, so "GET INTO IT...GET INVOLVED!!!"*REESE CARR IS AVAILABLE FOR SESSION DRUMMING, LIVE GIGS AND RHYTHM WORKSHOPS. FOR RATE INFO, CALL: 917-939-5913. OR E-MAIL: [email protected]. FOR MORE PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE AND INFO ABOUT REESE, CLICK THE "MAURICE J CARR (REESE)" PAGE BELOW, AND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN REESE'S MUSICAL PRODUCTION SERVICES, CLICK THE "STUDIO SIXES AND SEVENS" PAGE BELOW IN HIS "FRIENDS SPACE" .