Percussion Teacher: Marty Binder
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Marty has recorded with many famous artists, including Dave Specter, Albert Collins, and Coco Montoya.  He has been on many live concert tours thoughout US , Canada & Europe, and has had many television appearances, and also appeared at the following festivals: Chicago Blues Fest, San Francisco Blues Festival, San Diego Street Scene, Memphis in May, Monterey Blues Fest, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreaux Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest, and Mt. Fuji Jazz Fest.
Over the years, Marty has had the opportunity to back some great musicians including the following: Eric Clapton, Johnny Johnson and Steve Miller with Buddy Guy Band, Keith Richards and Chuck Berry at the Checkerboard Lounge with Junior Wells Band, Robben Ford at the North Sea Jazz Festival with Albert Collins Band, Elvin Bishop in Memphis with Coco Montoya Band, Otis Clay, Lowell Fulson, James Cotton, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Snooky Pryor, Billy Boy Arnold, A.C. Reed, Byther Smith, Bob Stroger, W. C. Clark, Tom Waits, Louis Meyers, Ronnie Earl, Wayne Bennett, Pinetop Perkins, Phil Guy, B.B. Odom, and Sammy Lawhorn. In 1977, he performed a drum battle with Louis Bellson.
Marty Binder trying to do it right at the 2000 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival
Megan Thomas, percussionist from Chicago, is an active performer and teacher who received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Millikin University.  Meg performs and teaches several different percussion instruments such as congas, drum set, bongos, timbales, tabla, cajon, doumbek, djembe, berimbau, cuica, and other percussion instruments.  Meg is involved in several original music projects such as Chicago-land's premier steel drum band, OD TAPO IMI (www.odtapoimi.com ) and the original rock band, Reptoids (www.reptoids.net).  She is also an avid performer in the festival and jobbing band circuits.  Meg has played in numerous bands over the years, opening up for acts ranging from Jimmy Buffett to Foreigner to Johnny Clegg to Better Than Ezra to Los Lobos while playing in venues that range from House of Blues to Alpine Valley to The Park West to thousands of festivals.  Meg has performed on local and national TV, and has also been on local and internet radio.  She has experience in a plethora of musical genres: latin, pop, rock, blues, punk, fusion, latin-jazz, salsa, world, folk, soca, calypso, classical, reggae, disco, R&B, etc.  In addition to being an active performer, she plays sessions at recording studios, puts on world percussion seminars, facilitates drum circles, and writes the Drum and Percussion Tips of the Month column for the webzine, ChicagoMusicGuide.com .  Meg is a Vic Firth private instructor.
Percussion Teacher: Megan Thomas
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