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Taylor H... is 13
and has been drumming since 6th grade. She plays a wide range of instruments
including drumset, finger cymbals, timpani and quints. Taylor is not is
a band but wants one. She has been 1st chair all of 7th grade year and
most of 6th. She got a first place rating in district and was in All-City
Band.
Kjrsten Haaland...
has been drumming for ten years and is currently playing with Drip
Joy, an all-girl rock band with Christa Hillhouse (formerly with
4-Non-Blondes) on bass and Sandice Alaska on guitar and vocals. Kjrsten
also plays for Secadora, currently
number 101 on the cmj charts (July 2001) and Shawna Virago and the Deadly
Nightshade Family, gigging in San Francisco and playing the women's music
festival in Northern CA this year. Email.
Edith Habraken... specializes in percussion for children, and runs a percussion
and drum school out of Riehen, Amsterdam. She has also played with several
orchestras and has appeared with Basler Carneval.
Sue Hadjopoulos...
has recorded and toured with Ricky Lee Jones,
Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Laurie Anderson, They Might Be Giants,
and countless others. She is also a songwriter and co-wrote,
produced, and performed the song "Breaking Up" for the movie Bar
Girls. For more info, go to her website.
Email.
Kate Haefele...
plays with Taw Shabella in Berkeley, California.
Nancy Hale... is 15 years old and she has been playing drums/percussion
since she was 11. In spite of what her peers thought about learning such
a loud instrument compared with the flutes and clarinets they were playing,
Nancy is dedicated to improving her drumming, even taking lessons to play
pipe snare for her local pipe and drum corps. She also plays crash hand
cymbals for her school's percussion section. Email.
Haley... is currently in her highschool varsity drummline. She has
been a drummer for almost four years. Haley is in the pit now playing
zylophone and bells, which is fun. She loves being a drummer!
Debbie Haliday... was the founding drummer of Lucid Nation.
Her epic songs "The Sun Doesn't Rise in the Slaughterhouse" and "Penetration"
are still played on college radio, long after Lucid Nation's The Stillness
of Over reached CMJ #8 most played in December 1997.
Kelly Hall... played with Altlanta band Man's Ruin. Check GMM Records for
the band's album.
Layla Hall... percussionist/back-up vocalist for Sista
Otis and the Wholly Rollers. One of the top acts out of Detroit, they
were nominated for a record-breaking 16 music awards for 2004, becoming
the highest nominated band in the awards' history, including a nomination
for Layla Hall for outstanding acoustic instrumentalist for percussion.
Elizabeth
Hammond... aka "The Hammer" drums for an all-girl three
piece band from Chapel Hill, NC called The
Pink Slips. Her style is not quite as hard as Dave Grohl, but not
quite as simple as Meg White.
Henriett Hammond... plays in a Christian
Rock Band in South Africa. email
Jennifer Haner...
plays drums, percussion, and sings for Portland, Oregon's JemBraVaKa.
Chris Hanson... played for the sixties band Laura and the Vipers.
Cathy Harabaras... is 31 years old and plays drums in a band called Savile Row.
She lives in London, very near Melanie Woods who is also on this list!
Kim Hardison... is
18 years old and has been drumming for 5 years. She also plays piano,
guitar, bass, and cello. She is in the process of starting an acoustic/alternative
rock band with fellow college musicians. Kim released an indie CD her band Boraghie but they have
since split up. Email.
Gail Hargraves, a.k.a. Gailforce... This drummer has her own show, Megaherz, on the airwaves
of Brisbane, Australia.
Anne Harkin... is an Australian
hand drummer specializing in West African, Middle Eastern, and Balkan
music. She has a website
that you can check out.
Wave Harless...
is from Pipe Creek, Texas, about 6 miles from Bandera,
Texas - cowboy capital of the world, but there are plenty of cowgoils
as well. Wave has a percussion ensemble group with four other women. Email.
Ashleigh Harmer... is 21 years old and
has been playing for 9 years. She drums with The Idle Faction,
a punk rock band from Wellington, New Zealand. email
Danielle Harmon...
has been playing since the 6th grade and she is currently
in a band called Velosity. The will be releasing their new single, "Middle
School is a Crime" very soon. Email.
Leesa Harrington-Squyres... of Jimmy's Pawn Shop has been voted Best Drummer in Houston
for the past six years.
Mary Harris...
was the former vocalist for Spearhead in the early 90's and is currently
working on her own projects in NYC. She also was the house drummer for
many of Philly's finest hip-hop projects, including The Fugees.
Bernadette
Heald... is an Australian percussionist specializing in
West African, Middle Eastern, and Latin music. Check out her website.
Nicole Melody Harrington... hails from Oakland, California and presently drums with
Honeyshot. She also has her own great site.
Email.
Elaine Harris... was
the drummer for Minnesota's Trip Shakespeare. Rumor has it she stands
at her kit and plays all of her drums with her hands.
Graham Harris-Curry... is
one half of the duo that is Red Star Belgrade.
Stacia Hassett... is a 20
year old from Rochester, NY. She is a Junior at SUNY Fredonia studying
Sound Recording Technology. Stacia has studied with Kristen Shiner McGuire
and Dr. Kay Stonefelt and she recently played on local recording artist,
Annika Bentley's, latest album. She is in an indie rock band called The
Minstrels.
Rose van der Haven... Is
a drummer from The Netherlands. She is currently playing with a nederpop
band: Het Vervolg. You can also check out her home page for more
drum information.
Linda Hawkinson... started
drumming October of 2002. She plays every Sunday at Lakeside Presbyterian
Church in Tarpon Springs, Florida. They needed a drummer, no one volunteered,
so Linda did. Most of the music is hard-core contemporary rock Christian
music. The best part is that Linda was 51 years old when she began playing--proof
positive that it’s never too late for us girls to achieve our
goals…never…BRING IT ON!!!!!
Alycin Hayes... was raised in a theatrical
family in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. She has spent most of her life traveling
around the world learning to play unusual percussion instruments. Some
of the instruments that Alycin plays for the London, Ontario band, “Anima
Munidi,” include Brazilian
berimbau and shakeree, Gambian djimbe drum, Fijian log drum, Cuban bongos
and Canadian wooden spoons. Alycin has also played in Gainesville, Florida
with the African drumming band
“The Lost Safari Drummers.” Email.
Rachael Hazlett... has been
playing percussion since she was ten, and now plays in the Firestone High
School Blue Coat Drum Corp in Akron, Ohio.
Laurie Hedlund... used to
drum for the band, Vixen.
Heleniq... is a 3 year djembe
drummer from Cape Town, South Africa who is about to start drumming for
serious and fun-filled outcomes. Heleniq is hoping to do some theraputic
drumming work since she is a psychologist and is very passionate about
myth,jung, chocolate and African Musicians..... Email.
Kennetha Helton... has been
in her High School marching band since before entering high school. The
only girl in her percussion section, Kennetha also plays vibes for the
school jazz band. email.
Ashley Henderson... is
13 years old and has been first chair for 2 consecutive years and has
gotten all gold medals in solo and ensemble contests.
Kristen Henderson...
plays drums, guitar, and used to play in New York's
all-female indie rock band, Antigone Rising.
Lori Henderson...
has been drumming on and off for 17 years. Check
out her cool website.
Or send her email.
Michelle Hendrix...
plays drums for Atlanta, Georgia's Alastor.
Janelle Hessig... drums for Panty Raid and Rat Attack.
Laura Hiles... is 15 years old and began learning the drums recently. She
has potential, but because she has played flute for 5 years and she's
a girl, no one (even her band directors) seem to have much confidence
in her. She wants to join the Cheboygan High School Jazz Band, but most
of all, she wants to prove to all those people in her band that laugh
at her, that she is a kick-butt drummer and you don't need to be a guy
to play well!
Lisa Hill... has drummed for Kitten Factor.
Ubaka Hill... is a performer,
percussionist, and teacher as well as the founder of The Drumsong Institute.
Shannon Hinkle...
currently plays with By Day and
formerly played with the rock band Jackson
Swing. Shannon plays drums, percussion, guitar, sings and writes
her own songs. She completed a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance.
Jodi Hockley...
lives and plays in New Jersey Channel Islands with
original band Ali's Garden and Leash, a rock cover band. She is 20 years
old and plays on a Pearl kit.
Mary
Ellen Hodges... is from Mount Vernon, WA (near Seattle)
and is a well rounded percussionist skilled in concert percussion, marching
percussion, drumset, and hand drumming. She is a public school music educator
and currently performs with the North Cascades Concert Band, the Stary
Night Chamber Orchestra, Mount Vernon Nazarene Worship Team, and various
musical theaters. She has recently been hired / performed with the Skagit
Valley Symphony, Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Mahler Festival
Orchestra, and East Valley Musical Theater. Mary Ellen also teaches private
percussion lessons, and is the Drumline Instructor for Mount Vernon and
Burlington-Edison High Schools.
Michelle Hodgson...has been playing drums for 6 years, was co-captain of her
school's drumline in 2001, made district honor band for 4 years, made
2 out-of-state honor bands, and is in a rock band with her fridns without
a name!
Kristina Hoehne... is the drummer of
THE german 50`s Rockabilly-Band Ike
and the Capers.
Niwana Hoffman... believes that it is
nice to have a support group in the sometimes prejudiced music bussiness.
She is a 44 year old female drummer and mom of three grown children, one
who is a drummer also! Niwana can't believe she blessed to still be playing
out at her age. She sings and plays, which is even more fun. Niwana believes
that drumming is a wonderful life-long journey filled with learning, acheiving,
and musical friends and you're never too old to start, or keep playing.
Harmoni Hoke... is in the process
of becoming one of the best drummers alive... but she's gotta work her
way there. email
Suzy Homewrecker... former drummer of Snap-Her and Total
Chaos. Suzy played in Total Chaos for
two years and also played on the Anthem albumn from the Alleyways.
Hope... is a percussionist at Rusk Junior High and she will be going
into 7th grade band next year. Although last year was Hope's first year
of playing and some of the guys tease her and tell her
that girls shouldn't play drums, she played 1st chair all year long and
is the best drummer in her class. Email.
Hope... from Houston, Texas
plays with Broken. Email.
Lauren Horbal...
is in her 8th year of drumming. Her drum teacher's drum teacher
played on one of Avril Lavigne's songs and her drum teacher is part of
the Christina Abbott band. Lauren is in a band called Wicked Booty and
is in Concert and Jazz band. She admires such groups as Good Charlotte
and Maroon 5.
Diana Hoskins... drums with Craig Bennett
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Melissa
Hosler... plays in an Austrian band called Bitter Orange.
Kelley
Marie Houpt... Kelley Marie Houpt played
snare drum in the Concord Blue Devils drum and bugle corps in the early
eighties. She is currently playing snare for the S.F. Renegades (CA),
an awesome sr. corps in the bay area, and has played set for her church
through the years. She started drumming at age 11 and was hooked…she
put down the sticks for quite some time and realized how much drumming
was still in her heart and she now has little interest in anything else
(well, except for the dog and the boyfriend)! 32nd note paradiddles and
flamdrags are her faves!
Janet Housden... This
L.A.-based drummer has played with Redd Kross, The Lovedolls and the Supercools.
Melissa Houston... is
a New York City based drummer who plays with power trio Eureka! and singer/songwriter
Heather Shayne Blakeslee. She works as a dance accompanist for companies
including Artichoke Dance, Keila Cordova Dances, Wanted X-Cheerleaders,
and Arthur Aviles' Typical Theatre. She has also been known to bang a
bucket for spare change every now and then. Email.
Mona Howell... is a sizzling San Diego-based
blues drummer who has played for Ms. Julia & the Blue Cats and with
the spin-off power trio, Big Blue Cat. Email.
Petra Hruzova... lives and drums in Caslav in the Czech Republic. The name
of her band is Mala Vystrednost, which means "small eccentricity."
Georgia Hubley...is
one-third of the legendary Yo La Tengo. If
you have any scruples, you'll check out the Drummergirl interview with her.
Missy Hui... has been playing drums for
6 years. Her former bands include the ska band "The Wisties"
and the jazz combo "Bif, Spanky and the PBJ's." These days her
drumming focusses largely on jazz, latin and afro-cuban rhythms so if
you have any really good charts, send them her way. Email.
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