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Katy Gaughan brings her love of the drum and joyful dance to enchant her audiences. As a drummer, dancer and drum circle facilitator, Katy uses her musical skills and facilitation training to bring people together to feel the connection of community, learn about the drum and movement, and have fun. Katy believes that the drum is an instrument that can be used for healing and encourages health through drumming with her organization Music Heals Us. She is a hand percussionist for Tribal Trance Fusion (one of many!) and is most often heard playing the West African djembe drum or the Latin conga drums. Yet she can also be found exploring the wide variety of instruments that lay at her feet during a Tribal Trance Fusion concert—if she’s not up and dancing with the audience. Her love of drumming and dance led her to the 2003 East Coast Drum Circle Facilitators Playshop with Arthur Hull. This one-week intensive training with Hull, one of the grandfathers of the American drum circle movement, certified her as a drum circle facilitator, which she brings into performance as well as into community drum circle facilitation. Katy is also the conguera for the local jazz trio Djesben and has drummed with a variety of Washington DC area based bands over the past five years, including Rhythm Shamans, Haunted Bordello, Shmazi and Jaqui MacMillan’s Hand Drum Orchestra, which performed at the 2002 Baltimore International Rhythm Drum Festival. She also plays with the Rhythm Worker’s Union, an activist group committed to bringing rhythm and music to the streets during protests, marches and demonstrations. Katy has been dancing most of her life and has been drumming for the past seven years. She has been blessed to learn and play hand drums with a variety of teachers in the Washington DC area, including the Malcolm X Drummers, Laryea Addy of the Royal Ghanaian Drum Family and WAMMIE winner Jaqui MacMillan. |
For bookings please contact Katy Gaughan at 202-361-4095 or e-mail Katy@TribalTranceFusion.com