Some of my earliest memories are of my parents listening to the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and a singer/songwriter named Laura Nyro. I loved her music and by the time I was eleven I was using chopsticks on the kitchen table playing along to her songs. That same year, I played conga in an African drumming class that was taught in a room completely filled to the ceiling with percussion instruments, but the only thing I was interested in was the drum-set even though my feet couldn’t reach the pedals.

My first band was called the Bondage Babies (which was slightly better then our alternate name of Johnny Coat Hanger and the Abortions) and we tried to be like the Pretenders. All of us went to a high school for the arts that everyone thought was Seattle’s version of the school in Fame. We weren’t dancing in the halls, but I did get to take acting and guitar and in my senior year, played drums every day in a class called Pop/Rock Ensemble.

Since then, I’ve been in bands and projects covering just about every style of music except polka and speed metal. Most recently, I’ve played with singer/songwriters like Ellis and Edie Carey, and last year I toured all over the US and the UK with an amazing roots band from Canada called Po’Girl. I first met Girlyman in 2003. I was an instant fan and knew we’d be friends when we discovered a shared love for Hayao Miyazaki’s anime movie Spirited Away. Joining Girlyman is my dream come true: traveling, hanging out with some of my favorite people and playing amazing music. Yay!

Things I Like

Cooking and eating organic food, running, outer space, Eckhart Tolle, Frisbee, playing guitar, breakfast, glass elevators, yoga, a smorgasbord, San Francisco, cats, big terrycloth robes provided by hotels, Slow Food, sound techs that wait for me to finish setting up the drums before they start putting on the drum mics, old science fiction books like those by Ray Bradbury, stained glass, chocolate, Neolithic artifacts, champagne, Chuck Taylors, cool boots, juggling, Amsterdam, cosmology, neuroscience and philosophy, books by Louise Erdrich, good movies, being outdoors, my bike.