Layne Redmond
Layne Redmond was an acclaimed drummer, composer, author, mythologist, and a lifelong student of yoga. Redmond taught workshops and performed internationally, specializing in the small, hand-held frame drums played primarily in the ancient Mediterranean world. For over twenty years, she researched the history of this drum in religious and healing rites in the ancient Mediterranean world culminating in her 1997 book, 
When the Drummers Were Women. The February 2000 issue of DRUM! Magazine listed Redmond as one of the 53 heavyweight Drummers Who Made A Difference in the '90s. She was the only woman on this list, and she was the only drummer on the list whose work focused on the spiritual and healing dimensions of drumming and rhythm.  Redmond was also named Drum! magazine's 2002 Percussionist of the Year, and is only one of two women featured in Planet Drum, the book about ethnic drumming by The Grateful Dead's drummer, Mickey Hart. And she was the first woman to have a Signature Series of world percussion instruments with Remo, Inc.

Redmond was a master clinician and has taught and lectured numerous times at the Percussive Arts Society's International Convention, presented at the National Association of Music Therapy, gave the keynote lecture and performance at the eighth annual Healing Sound Colloquium, and was one of the keynote presenters at the 2007 International Sound Healing Conference in Santa Fe, NM.


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