Hi everyone. Greetings from Tucson, Arizona. I'm very pleased to announce that I will be on drums for the new Off-Broadway production of Avenue Q. The fact that this production is even happening was a real exciting surprise to everyone involved...and now be offered the full-time gig is just fantastic. So I hope you will come check it out once it's up and running, which will be next month already. As for being in Tucson... I have been filling in on the national tour of Spamalot, with this being my third of three weeks with them. In the past two weeks, I also played San Diego and San Jose. It's been a real pleasure to play this music again and I've been having a great time working with the traveling musicians here. FYI, I will be returning to New York on Monday 9/28. Keep checking out my youtube page at: www.youtube.com/drummingjoe. New stuff will be posted very soon.

Hi everyone. Just a few updates for you. This coming week I will be on drums for the first three performances of a Fringe Festival show entitled Dancing With Abandon, happening at the Dixon Place Theatre. Following that, I will actually be heading out of town for three weeks to go sub on the national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot. This will take me to San Diego, San Jose, and Tucson. Should be a nice time.

Back here in New York, it's going to be tough for a while with shows closing. Most notable will be the closing of Avenue Q on September 13th. My friend Michael Croiter (the drummer there) has been kind enough to have me in to sub many, many times over the past two years. I am deeply grateful to Michael for the fantastic opportunity, and grateful to everyone there who has always made that pit such a warm, welcome, and fun place to work. I will definitely miss going to work at the "puppet show" (as we all call it).

Additionally, a lot of people were recently affected by the announcement that "9 to 5" will be coming to an untimely end. I was just about to start subbing there and had already learned most of the book. Just very unfortunate that the show didn't get to live longer. My friend Sean does a fantastic job there, playing one of the best Broadway drum books ever written.

That's it for now. Remember to keep up with me on youtube: www.youtube.com/drummingjoe

Yes, the time has finally come that have made the time to get some material up and running on YouTube. I will now be regularly posting examples of my performances along with free drum lessons. So please go have a look at www.youtube.com/drummingjoe and take a look at what I have so far.

Also, I have a good gig to see tomorrow night at Birdland. I will be backing up jazz/cabaret singer Natalie Douglas with a very eclectic set of music. Monday night at 7 PM.

Other than that, trying to stay busy with shows and teaching. I recently started subbing at "The Marvelous Wonderettes" and that has been fun so far.

Thanks for stopping by.