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Laura Beth Bachman... plays drums for the surf instrumental band, The Neptunas, and the
all-girl punk trio Ballgagger (best described as, "the Urinals meet Cyndi
Lauper"), from Hermosa Beach, CA.
Clare Bagnall... had a filthy temper as a child and her therapist
suggested she take up drums as an alternative outlet for her aggression!
Clare has been playing drums since the age of 11 and plays for Leeds
Based Riot Grrrl band Eliza 69. The boys want her, but the RG's got
her!
Ruth Bakker... is the drummer for all-girl group LADY!DIE
from Rotterdam. She is the group's original drummer.
Sue Balaschak...
drums for Burning Sage, an all-female rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. You
can check out their latest CD on CD
Baby.
Aurora Bangarth...
hails from London, Ontario, Canada. She plays drums/djembe and co-composes
for the London-based rock band Something
Savvy, in addition to studying percussion at The University of Western
Ontario. She plans on attaining her Bachelor of Education, and possibly
continuing on at the Masters level. Aurora plays a Pearl Export kit
with a Slingerland snare and a mishmash of Zildjian and Sabian cymbals.
Email.
Betsy
Banger... starting the engine at 5 years old,
revving up live by 14, and flat out pedal to the metal at 35! She's now
playing blues/southern rock with The Michael Shaun Norton Band. Email.
Caroline Banks...
contributes drums and vocals to London's Seafood.
Their music consists of thrashing guitars and melodious hooks, but even
better, they're signed to the label with quite possibly the best name
in the world: Fierce Panda.
Cat Barber... started playing at the tender age of eight and can now be
seen and heard in San Francisco's The Hail Marys.
Lori Barbero... provided the blistering beats for Minnesota's famed Babes
in Toyland.
Christine Bard... drums for several NYC downtown bands, including Soultronix
and EasSide Percussion. You can go to the
drummergirl interview
with her, or visit her site.
Faye Baron... has
been playing drums since the seventh grade. She is 16 years old and played
formerly for Jagged Pearl and now plays with Hybrid
Soul. In addition to Faye's Synsonics 5 piece kit, Evans drumheads
and Zildjian cymbals, she just bought a DW 7000 double-bass pedal. Email.
Melinda (Mindy) Barret... has been playing for fourteen years now with the Crap Detectors,
Seattle's "local punk, distorted grunge-rock funksters."
Albana Barrocas... lives in Monetvideo, Uruguay and has been drumming since
she was 12. She plays for a band called Kirlian and they have a demo on
their site which you can listen to. Albana's favorite music is heavy music
with double bass but she also likes to play jazz, songo, Brazillian and
African music. Check out her old band's site. Email.
M.
Bates... is a female percussionist for South
Oak Cliff HS, playing bass drum in the marching band and various instruments
for concerts.
Muriel
Battersby... from Maryland is 52 years "young" and has
been playing drums since she was 12. Girls were steered away from choosing
drums and other "manly" instruments when Muriel was in elementary
school so she begged her parents for a kit and finally received a 3-piece
Kent. Currently she has a red 5-piece Pearl Export kit and her favorite,
a beautiful white Rogers 5-piece kit! You can visit Muriel's website
and keep your eye out on Amazon.com, where she is uploading her original
songs for free.
Pat
Baum... drummed for eighties bands like The
Grip and Unknown Soldier. She's a filmmaker too.
Tonya Baxter...
from Illinois. New Drummer! Plays Pearl Export Series.... no bands yet!
Baz...
is an energetic drummer who had little drumming experience when she joined
In Coincidence in mid 2002. Now, after performing a few gigs, In Coincidence
has become known as the 1st all-girl punkrock trio in Singapore.
Janet
Beveridge Bean... drums for Eleventh
Dream Day and fronts the band Freakwater.
Ina
Becker... is a drummer from Germany (born
1972, playing drums since 1993) currently playing for several local bands
around Stuttgart/Germany including Allmand Chaoten
Orchestra, Funk'N
Mary, DaimlerChrysler Bigband
Suttgart and Hope
You Smile. Ina also draws musician
cartoons. Email.
Liz Beidelman... drums for the Sacramento, California-based band AngoraMachinegun.
Email.
Laurie Bell... handled the drums and lead vocals for the all-female eighties
pop band The Orchids, as well as for Tantrum and Puss in Boots.
Lisa Bell... is in Canada's only all-female cajun-zydeco band Louisiana
Jane.
Stephanie Bell... has been playing drums
for 6 years. She is the new tenor player on the Arcadia Drum Line
which is 6th in the nation right now, and getting better. email
Elissa
Bello ... used to drum for the Go-Go's (when they were called
the Misfits). They were formed in 1978 in LA and couldn't find a drummer.
Elissa drummed with them as a hobby for a while.
Slade
Bellum... is part of the San Francisco-based, dyke, punk rock band
Tribe
8. They've got attitude for days.
Lorijean Bennett... originally from California, Lorijean lives in Iceland where
she is trying to put together a punk band. Any takers? email
Tuesday Bennitt... is the drummer and songwriter for the Brooklyn-based, pop/alternative
band beulaland.
Julie Benson... plays with The Roadhouse Ramblers out of Anchorage, Alaska.
April Bensun... currently plays with Three Point Star in New Jersey and her
previous bands include Plan-B, Hyper and Virus. Check out her site.
Email.
Traci Berg... only fifteen years old,
Traci has been drumming for a year. She is currently in the band, KIK,
and plans to continue drumming after leaving school.
Diana
Berndt... has been playing with the Route
49 Band in Northern Indiana since 1993 and they're still goin' strong.
Email.
Laura Bertram... is
a 15 year old drummer from Melbourne, Australia. Laura drums in her all-girls
school rock band "set 13" and she also plays
guitar (6 years) and bass. Email.
Ginger Bianco...
was the co-founder of the first all-female band
to hit the charts, Goldie and the Gingerbreads (circa 1960s).
You can find out about her here.
Eleni Binge...
believes a pared down kit makes a happy drummer. You can be more with
less. And rock. Check out her latest band Beloved
Binge.
Teresa Birk... is
in Omaha, Nebraska's Maze Fate.
Bronwyn Bird... 22 year old drummer from
Melbourne, Australia. Currently plays in the metal band Tribal Clown.
Check out the Tribal
Clown website for more info...or here
to hear some tunes.
Cindy Blackburn... is one of the few female drummers in Montreal. She has drummed
for Sundown for the past 8 years, playing mainly New Country, Southern
Rock and just plain old Rock n' Roll. When Cindy is in the studio she
uses her set of vintage Slingerland drums made in Chicago and when she
plays live she uses her Yamaha Electric drums. Email.
Cindy
Blackman... is best known for working with Lenny Kravitz, but she's
upheld the backbeat and rhythm for a veritable "Who's Who" in jazz and
rock--Jackie Mclean, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Sanders, to name a few--in
addition to doing her own solo work. For the full list, check out her
website.
If you want to see the awesome Cindy Blackman performing, check out the
video clip on the drummerworld
website - it takes a while to load, but it's well worth it!
Madison Blackman...has been drumming
for 11 years and is first chair in her university jazz band, jazz combo,
principal percussionist in orchestra, and plays with two bands.
She is a very swinging and jazzy drummer and is studying music with a
concentration in percussion performance at washington state university.
She also plays bass and learning sax too! She has also recorded 3
CD's with her band jazzuu and hopefully will make it big soon. email
Elleny R. Blair... is from Owensboro, KY.
She is 18 years old and plans on joining the Army Band. Elleny's principal
instrument is snare drum but she is also proficient in drumset, mallets
and auxiliary and plans to go to school for music. Bethany has participated
in several musical organisations including Youth 2000 Gospel Band, Owensboro
Symphony Youth Orchestra and Western Honors Band. Email.
Jody
Bleyle... plays drums for Portland, Oregon's Hazel, and guitar/bass/vocals
for the self-proclaimed, "lesbionic all-dyke rock band of the decade,"
Team Dresch.
Nikke Blout... hails from L.A. where she drums for The
Deep Happy. Nikke's high-energy style is fluid and powerful--which
it should be because she's been drumming since she was seven!
Catelyn Blythe... is in the band Watkins. She's only seventeen
but she's already been winning awards for her drumming.
Paula
Bocciardi... founded Three
Hour Tour more than ten years ago, an all female band based
in San Francisco, CA. They have a large fan base and play covers from
Frank Sinatra to the Rolling Stones and beyond.
Alisa
Bodai... is the drummer for Florida Christian rock band Impact.
Alisa used to play for punk/hardcore band Think Again in
upstate NY. She is an experienced church worship drummer and stage drummer.
Email.
Amy
Boettger... started drumming in Tampa, Florida in 1974,
and has played nearly every type of music that requires percussion,
including drum corps (Suncoast Sound Drum & Bugle Corps ’82
– ’84; Percussionist of the Year in ’84), drumlines
(the "Big 8" drumline at Florida State University), numerous
rock and jazz bands, as well as orchestral work. After a 15 year hiatus
from drumming, she now lives in Salt Lake City, where she is an attorney
by day and at night she kicks it up with one of the top bands in Utah;
the all-women rock and blues band Sister
Wives.
Linda Bolley... drums for
Michelle Malone
and the Peepshow Band and she rocks!
Jen Bond... is the
current drummer for New Jersey's all-female pop/rock band The Catholic
Girls. She played on their February 2002 CD release "Make Me Believe"
and is now touring with the band. To read more about Jen's drumming history,
you can visit The
Catholic Girls website.
Bonnie... has been
playing drums for four years and is starting a new band at the Real
Life Church in Barnesville, Ohio. Email.
Sabine Bosma... (drumsab on various forums)
has played drums in "Priority" and "Duck!"; both
are metal and rockbands. She prefers to play double base. Sabine is
currently bandless but working on songs in her home studio. And she's
from the Netherlands. Email.
Rosalee Boudreau... drums in Wind Ensemble, Concert Band
and Jazz Band. Email.
Lorien Bourne...
is 29 years old and has been drumming since she was
eight. Lorien lives in Bowling Green, Ohio (near Toledo) and is interested
in using her professional kt to either play with a band or jam. Email.
Melody Bowen...
aka Kay, she plays drums in the Seattle area. With an eclectic style,
she drums with the Furies. Email.
- Jane
Boxall... drums for Illinois
rock trio Triple Whip.
Toastacia Boyd... also known as Toast, currently plays in
a dynamic, three-piece garage band called The
Ray-O-Vacs. She also used to play in The
Neptunas, an all-girl surf band. Check out the ToAsToLa IN-SiTe
to find out more about her.
Lacey
Boyle... is in the Fife and Drum of Yorktown and LHS bands.
Chana
Bradley "aka Mini Me"... drums for
Murdoch Middle School PT, Charlotte, Florida.
Anne Breick... is a one-woman percussion machine! She drums for Kick
La Luna, leads a twenty-woman samba
band and also heads a Stomp-like project called Ten on
Tons. You can also catch her on her own site.
Just one word of warning: it helps if you can read German.
Tracy Brewer... drums,
sings, screams and generally "rocks out!" in the Salt Lake City, two-girl,
punk-piece, CHUBBY BUNNY.
Valerie Brogden...
is the drummer from the up-and-coming rock'n'roll band the Mechanical
Dolls.
Lacey Brown... perorms with Dolour in Seattle,
Washington. Email.
Maureen Brown... has for many years occupied the throne as Canada's Drum
Queen. A highly sought after session and live drummer Maureen regularly
plays across Canada at a wide variety of venues. For many years she appeared
with her own band, "The Maureen Brown Band", where she could be found
behind her set of Custom Pink Canwood Drums. Maureen is renowned amongst
canada's family of Pro Musicians as much for her warm heart and boundless
sense of humour as she is for her solid chops......
Miss Brown... drums for New York's Lava Baby, which won the 2000 VH1 undiscovered talent
contest.
Sarah Brown... from Maryland plays with The Hormones. She got into
drumming after seeing Dave Grohl play and she thinks the qualities that
make a good drummer include speed, precision, technique and rhythm.
Meredith Bruce...
plays with the Ardmore
High School Marching Band.
Email.
Amy Bryan... drums in North Bend/ Coos
bay Oregon. Currently drumming for Flippant Society! she has drummed
for Buster, numerous Jazz Bands and LTOB's Opry. She won outstanding
musician for all North West and her jazz band won first place in Canada.
email
Buffy... ain't just the name of a vampire slayer. She's also the
drummer for the Subsonics and is known for whaling on the skins whilst
standing up.
Ria Bunye... I'm turning 15 this May '05, and I'm from the Philippines.. I learned to play the drums just these past few months at church. I'm in a band right now with my fellow girlfriends who plays the other instruments with me... We jam and rock for our God during our youth services! I'm so happy 'cause people appreciate the way I bang the drums even though I'm still a beginner. Yet I wouldn't have received all these appreciation without my God helping me throughout.. Being in the list is what I want... Not for me to brag about it. But simply because it's a fact that I'm a drummergirl. So, I would really appreciate if you would add me up in your list. Thanks so much!
Betty Burbank... is a self-taught drummer and the only female member of the
original pop punk and roll band, The
Burbanks. Email.
Sarah Burrows...
is in the UK's Yen. Check out their new single, "We Do What We Want."
A good anthem for drummergirls everywhere.
Debra Bush... provides the beat for Faded
Sunrise.
Liz Bustamante... has previously played with bands Skinner Pilot and The Deer
Park. She was in the drum corp. in high school but taught herself to play
because she wanted to be in a band so badly. These days she's drumming
for Brooklyn industrial band Addicted
2 Fiction.
Lauren Button...
drums for the all-girl, high school band, Dark Nebula.
Julie Butzlaff...
has been drumming for twenty-three years, and is in the Milwaukee emo-core,
grounge band Nuna.
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