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Moira Fanning... is
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Spirit of 16.
Farah Fard... drums for the Cindy
Loo Whos. Although drumming is her main passion in life, she is planning
on majoring in journalism in college. Email.
Nina Färdig...
the drummer of the punk trio Abductee S.D. - a D.I.Y. all girl punkband
from Stockholm, Sweden. They have a CD out on their own label Communichaos
Media. With one American and two Swedish members, they find it natural
for their lyrics to be a mix of Swedish and English. They played a Swedish
tour in April. Another part time project of Nina's is Stajnas Lobos, where
she gets to do a more "rockish" kind of drumming. The band lineup
is a very pregnant female
singer, Nina on drums and male guitarist and bass player. She would love
to get in touch with other female punk drummers, so feel free to write
to email her.
Amy Farina... used to be in the now defunct The
Warmers and has also drummed with Lois.
Diane Farris... was
the drummer for the band Children in Adult Jails and hosts
a show, Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine,
on WFMU, the very cool radio station in New Jersey.
Kelly Fasman... Is a jazz drummer in the San Fransisco area.
Molly Felder... is
the drummer and lead vocalist for Swan
Dive, a duo straight out of Nashville, Tennessee. They're so
cute, it hurts.
Linda
Ferguson... drums for a basement-rock group
called the Underbites.
Email.
Sarah Fernandes... played in MVR (Monkey vs. Robot), a New England band which
is now sadly defunct.
Daniella Ferraro... is sixteen years old
and has been playing the drums for 6 years. She plays currently with the
band Your Mom, an all-girl group that consists of a bass player, lead
and rhythm guitars. Your Mom is starting to make it big in New York.
Renata Ferreira... is a 15 yo Brazillian drummer living in
a small town in Southeast Brazil. She plays for a po/rock band called
Cannibais Sapiens and her instructor for the past year has been Rui Motta,
a composer and former drummer for "the greatest" Os Mutantes. Renata has
also had private lessons with the famous Vera Figueiredo. Email.
Elaine Fierro...
is a talented drummer in California who has played
with Andi Beltramo's 'Snap-Her' and Exene Cervenka's 'Original Sinners'.
She was inches from becoming a Delphine (was a Delphine for a day -
that's Kathy Valentine's OTHER band) and drummer for the "World's
Only All Feline" band Whistlebait (early 90's LA based Rock-A-Billy
Hall of Famers w/ poster art up at the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland).
Vera Figueiredo... is a solo artist endorsed by the likes of Sabian (she's the
only Brazilian in their catalogue), Evans, Premier, and Vic Firth. She
also founded the Institute de Bateria (an institute for drumming). Read
up on it here.
Christina Files... was once part of the endlessly changing lineup of The Swirlies
and then drummed with Boston's Victory at Sea. Now she plays with Mary
Timony of Helium.
Stephanie Filippini... plays with Nashville
garage rock trio, The Clutters.
Melanie Fink... is 16 years old and has
been playing since the young age of 9. She has been competing at NYSSMA
competitions since she started playing and has even skipped a level.
Her most recent score was an A+ in the highest level of competition.
Melanie plays in the concert band and jazz band at her high school and
practices with the marching band as well. She plays a variety of percussion
instruments including drum set, marching snare, mallets, timpani, latin
percussion, as well as piano. She is experienced in playing many types
of music including jazz, swing, funk, and marches, however, her passion
is rock music.
Sarah Fisher... is currently the drummer
for detroit rock band The Grande
Nationals. The Grande Nationals just released a self titled ep, which
is available on their website.
Sarah's past bands include Liddle Tyke, and P13. Watch for the Grande
Nationals... they may be coming to your town in early 2004.
Natasha Fitzpatrick...
is the only female percussion player for the Southeastern
Marching Trojans.
Sugar Fix... plays with The Deepthroats.
Keylee Flanders... is a 15 year old drummer for ska punk band Krum. Email.
Pam Fleenor... has
been studying hand drumming and teaching herself to make hand drums
for the past eight years. Check out the beautiful drums on her site.
Ciara Flynn... is 17 years old and plays
in a college band called Chasing
Ace in South Wales, UK. She has been playing for four years under
the supervision of Elliot Bennet. She also enjoys guitar and keyboards,
but hopes to rock her way to stardom with her silver Premier Cabria.
Jessica Flynn... is
13 years old from Chicago, IL. She plays in the band at Prairie Junior
High School.
Ashley Fogg... plays
drums for Livin4DaLord and a church band. Her dream in life is to play
drums in a band.
Megan Foley... is
currently (along with many other projects) the drummer for the LA-based,
all-female big band Maiden Voyage.
Josephine Forsman... plays in SAHARA
HOTNIGHTS a sweden all female band on BMG records.
Carol Fortman... is in marching band
and she rocks the house on her bass drum.
Jen Foster... is
an amazing drummer who currently plays in Vancouver, Canada's The Flairs.
Lauren Fowler...
played snare drum with the University of Notre Dame Drumline. She also
toured with the Notre Dame Concert Band and performed her last concert
with them in the Sydney Opera House. She now resides in Atlanta and
plays with the Callanwolde Concert Band.
Hanna Fox... is in NY's Babe the Blue Ox,
"part mythical beast, part psychosexual therapy, part dissonant
art-rockers, part ethereal popmeisters and nothing like you've ever heard
before."
Stephanie Frady... is the first chair
percussion and has been the percussion captain for two years at Newberry
High School. Stephanie plays second chair mallets in the South Carolina
Region Band and also the second snare in snare line. Email.
Icie Marie Frady-Alley... has
played the bodhran (Irish traditional drum) for more than 25 years. She
also plays keyboard and whistle and is a member of the trio Inis-Ceol
(which translates from Irish Gaelic to "Island Music"). The
band performs traditional and folk Celtic pieces from Ireland, Scotland,
Wales, Australia, the USA, and more. Icie has been teaching bodhran to
other ladies for about 15 years. The band has played monthly at the same
club in Detroit for 10 years.
Amanda Francis... has
been a drumming for about seven years and has played set for about three
or four. She plays in a jazz band at school and also does marching band,
symphonic band and concert band. Amanda loves playing and love the drums.
She occasionally plays with her cousin and brother who have a band. She
loves to learn everything thing she can about drums and take any suggestions
people give. Email.
Ann C. Francis... currently plays drums and sings with GOT in Philadelphia,
PA. Ann also currently plays with Blackbox who play mainly originals and
Lost Cow, a local rock cover band. She sits in with a band called Traces,
an oldies band that has opened for The Brooklyn Bridge and The Duprees.
They are currently planning shows in Las Vegas and Los Angeles and a tour
of the East Coast. Email.
Ashley Francis... plays in three bands - her church band, school band and her
own band called ReBoRn. Ashley lives in Grove City, Ohio and has been
drumming for five years. Email.
Melena Francis... is an excellent conga drummer who has a terrific website.
As her site loads, you get a small sample of her drumming, and if you
want to hear more, click on the "Music" link where there are
song titles as well as movie clips for you to watch and listen to. The
piece, "Timba Tumbadora," is a 3.5 minute fiery conga drum solo
that is incredible! Please check it out!
Claire Franklin... used to be in Florida's Bullwinkle and Elysian Sex-Drive.
She is currently in the blues-funky-Celtic alternative Frog & Flower.
Lori A. Salvato Friedline... began violin
at age 10, and joined the high school marching band at 14 to be with her
first boyfriend, a trumpet player. Playing cymbals, Lori grew interested
in the snare drum, and worked to make the line for the following year.
Her "Women don't play drums" boyfriend was soon history, and
Lori achieved a spot in the high school snare line. She later won acceptance
into the highly-competitive and nationally-recognized West Virginia University
Drumline, and also became involved in the percussion ensemble and took
lessons on marimba. She performed in the Departmental for the Percussion
Dept., the Head of which told her she (a violin major) was good enough
to have been a percussion major!
After college, Lori joined a community-based concert band at Rutgers University,
and plays timpani on holidays and special occasions at church. She plays
drum set with her church's "Praise Band" at Contemporary worship
services, and is a snare drummer with the Drum Line of a local Drum &
Bugle Corps. Over the years, she's learned from and worked with many talented
musicians. Yearly, Lori and her husband (a tuba player she met at WVU)
return for Homecoming to play in the 200-piece Alumni Band, and has her
own Yamaha marching snare drum and carrier (thanks to eBay). Fortunately,
Lori's husband John has no issues with chick drummers!
Danni Froning... plays in the Chapman Panthers Marching Band. Danni plays
flute and when she moved she started to play cymbals. She earned the nickname
"FishLips" because when she holds her cymbals up and the snares start
banging, she has a habit of sucking in her lips like a fish. Email.
Alexandria Futrell... was introduced to the drums in utero and at six months she
was already banging away at her father's drum kit. Well, maybe not quite,
but now at the age of two-and-a-half she is a full-fledged drummergirl.
Maybe in a year or so she'll form a band. We'll be on the lookout.
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