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Artistic Director Repercussion: Vancouver, International Bhangra Celebration 2009/2010
Producer – Global Beats Soundstreams Cool Drummings Festival Toronto 2007
and 2008
Producer – Aboriginal Music Lab, Vancouver Community College, Vancouver
2007, 2008
Creative Director – Drum Song, video for BC/Canada House Beijing Summer 2008
Producer – Choral Riffs Celebration 2010 for Vancouver’s Olympic Bid 2003
Producer – Open House, Commodore Ballroom events and workshops, MusicFest Vancouver 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008
Artistic Director – Listen Up Festival Vancouver East Cultural Centre 2001-
Artistic Director – Vancouver International Writers Festival Literary Cabaret 1988-
Artistic Director – Vancouver Folk Music Festival 1994-1995
Programme Director – Simon Fraser Summer World Percussion Intensive 1993-1999
Artistic Director – Drum Heat Percussion Festival 1986-2003
Artistic Director – International Talent Victoria Commonwealth Games 1994
Artistic Director – Midsummer’s Night Gala for Queen Elizabeth II Victoria 1994
Project Manager – AfroCubanismo 1996 Banff School of Fine Arts
Producer – World Music/World Myth Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 1996
Artistic Director – Music 91 Gala Canada Place Convention Centre
Producer – Symphonic Salsa Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 1998
Assistant Director – World Drum Festival Expo 86 Vancouver, Expo 88 Brisbane, Australia, Calgary Olympic Festival 1988, Expo 98 Lisbon, Portugal and Expo 2000 Hanover, Germany.
Coordinator – World Percussion Sessions Percussive Arts Society International Conferences in Columbus Ohio 2002 and Nashville Tennessee 2001.
Latin American Festival Scholarly presentation University of Central
Florida, Orlando, Spring, 2007
Keynote Speaker Arts Umbrella Professional Development Day, Vancouver, September 2008
Keynote Speaker, College Music Society Northwest Chapter, February, 2007
Scholar's presentation at Creative Music Institute Symposium in Vancouver, June 2005
Scholar’s paper presentation Society for Ethnomusicology International Conference in Tucson, Arizona, Fall 2004
Scholar’s paper presentation Society for Ethnomusicology International Conference in Estes Park, Colorado Fall 2002
Keynote Speaker – International Baccalaureate Conference Vancouver 1997, 2003
Host – Victoria Day CBC National Network special Music from the Rain Coast 1996
Host CBC National Radio Network eight part series Out of this World June-July 1992
Guest commentator CBC Toronto’s The Entertainers series on the Rumba 1991
Numerous radio and TV interviews on the subjects of percussion music, world music, Latin American music and cultural diversity on English, Spanish and French language shows.
