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BIG NAMES!!!
Although they do not own a Little Badger drum, we happily lend our drums to any Native American performer at a powwow or festival. Sometimes famous performers just find one of our drums and play it.
Bill Miller, Grammy award winner and one of the best known contemporary Native American musicians, played a drum purchased by Kris Lasher from The Drum People at the 2006 Solarfest in Vermont. Thank you, Kris, for sharing one of our drums with Bill Miller!
Arvel Bird, Nammy award winner. Arvel Bird and One Nation performed with a Little Badger powwow drum at the 2006 Native American Music Awards in Hollywood, Florida.
Andy Wasserman, musician, composer, performer. You have heard his music on TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC), A & E, the Learning Channel. We could go on, but read Andy's bio. He is holding a Little Badger drum painted by Cheryl (the Mother Earth Turtle) and to beneath the drum is a beaded drum stick with matching turtles also created by Cheryl.
SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
Our drums have found homes all over the world. A few of our drum customers include:
- Chief Little Horses, direct descent of Geronimo, star of the popular TV show "Rawhide" and actor in over 100 films, including A Man Called Horse. Now deceased.
- Jim Sawgrass, featured in the book We Dance Because We Can describing contemporary Native Americans. National educator on the Muskogee Creek culture. (see our links).
- Chipa Wolf, also featured in We Dance Because We Can. Animal Rescuer, great guy and promoter for Rolling Thunder Enterprises.
- Peter Phippen, 2003, 2007 Native American Music Award (NAMMY) Nominee for Flute Music. He purchased and played one of our drums at the 2004 Musical Echoes Flute Festival in Ft. Walton Beach, FL (Nationally Acclaimed Flute Gathering)!!! Peter is a Canyon Records Recording Artist.
- Members of Professional Powwow Drum Teams. Some use our powwow drums, others have purchased hand drums. At many powwows in the southeast, at least two of the drums playing are Little Badger Drums from The Drum People at Earth Shadow Design. THESE MEN WIN NATIONAL DRUM COMPETITIONS, AND THEY CHOOSE OUR POWWOW DRUMS TO GET THE JOB DONE! If you want to make it to the top, choose the right equipment, and practice a lot. Here are a few examples:
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All Nations (Cherokee) - North Carolina
- Battle Scar (Shoshone, Hopi) - Arizona
- Big Soldier Drum (Sans/Faux) - Iowa
- Bad Water Singers - Alabama/Tennessee/Georgia
- NVHI Drum Group, (Cherokee) N. Carolina (Sonny 828-497-9435)
- Lords of the Plains (Otto Mahsetky's drum) - Oklahoma
- Red Bird Jr. Singers (Intertribal) - Florida
- Red Bird Sr. Drum (Intertribal) - Florida
- Silver Bird Singers, (Intertribal) Georgia
If you play on a Little Badger drum and don't see your name here, email us and we'll add you to our list. We appreciate all of the wonderful Native American powwow drum singers who trust Keith to build their drums!
5. Native American Churches
- Tribe of Christ Church in Leeds, Alabama
- Broken Lance Church in Lone Oak, Florida
6. Red Road to Recovery/Wellbriety Groups
7. U.S. State and Federal Prisons
8. Drum Circles all over the United States
9. Counseling Centers - drums are healing tools and we thank the healers who use them
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