An Israeli all-female drummer group performed at the reception celebrating Israel’s 75th birthday in the Philippines organized by the Embassy of Israel in Manila. “Rhythmania describes itself ...

Her 108th birthday would have been next month. “I am very, very thankful that I’m accepted as a girl drummer,” Smith ... formed the Coquettes, an all-female orchestra, in 1938.

Africa’s foremost female drummer and one of Nigeria’s greatest ... Obasanjo said this at Ara’s birthday celebration which held recently at the prestigious Oriental Hotel, Lagos.

At the time, the Sheratons had a residency at the Mildmay Tavern in Stoke Newington, where the presence of a female drummer made the ... Honey Lantree’s 21st birthday, and would remain in ...

A year and a half later, on September 17th, six days before her ninety-second birthday ... “Those women—the early female drummers like Viola Smith, Pauline Braddy, and Dottie—I have such ...

Pioneering drummer Viola Smith has passed away aged 107, just weeks before her 108th birthday. Born Viola Schmitz on November ... if not the first, female drummers in popular music. Viola died on ...

In the 1930s, she was billed as the “world's fastest girl drummer,” and she went on to see other female drummers follow ... Her 108th birthday would have been next month. “ ...