Drums with Mark B.

Mark Beecher is the Teacher of Percussion at Drexel University, where he also is the Director of the Percussion Ensemble. He has performed on stage with GRAMMY & CMA Award-winning Country artist, Shania Twain, Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning artists, The Chieftains, GRAMMY Nominee and Multi Award-winner, Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge, Multi GRAMMY Award-winning drummer, Peter Erskine, GRAMMY Nominee, Elio Villafranca, as well as renowned Jesus Music Movement artist, Paul Clark and Bakithi Kumalo - renowned bass player for Paul Simon on his GRAMMY Award-winning Graceland album; Mark had the honor & privilege of performing for Rock and Roll legends and Hall of Fame Inductees, The Rolling Stones - with Synthesis Latin Band - and has also entertained such dignitaries as President Bill Clinton, Queen Elizabeth, President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France, King Carl XVl Gustav of Sweden, Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai and most recently, the surviving daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; he has shared the stage with a number of national & international recording artists, which has included David Lee Roth, The Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason, The Temptations, Bo Diddley, Mike Stern, Leni Stern, Lucinda Williams, Fastball, Modern English, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Patty Griffin, Francis Dunnery, Moxy Fruvous, Arlo Guthrie, Patty Larkin, Trout Fishing in America, James McMurty, The Klezmatics, etc; Mark both produced & recorded the soundtrack for the renowned video game series, Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars, which has sold in excess of 400,000 copies since its release on April 12, 2012 and he's presently recording a new soundtrack for the same Flying Squirrel Entertainment for their upcoming Civil War game - "Battle Cry of Freedom." Mark Beecher's recent New Age albums, "Eclipse" & "After the Storm," both of which were included in the 1st Round Ballots for the 60th & 59th GRAMMY Awards, are available, digitally, on iTunes & Amazon (Eclipse) / iTunes & Amazon (After the Storm), as is his EDM album, MARKY BEE "Nu Creation" - also digitally available on iTunes & Amazon (a 1st Round Entry in the 58th GRAMMY Awards)! And ... Mark has just released his 4th solo album - his second as MARKY BEE, entitled, "Endeavor" - available, digitally, on iTunes & Amazon. All 4 albums are on the Orthodoxy Records label.