ABOUT JOHNNY DRUMMER

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Johnny Drummer is an International performer who performs consistently in major festivals and shows throughout the world.  He is now living in Horn Lake MS after spending many years in Chicago.  

 

Johnny toured in Poland and Finland in 2018 and is a regular at the world renowned Juke Joint “Reds” in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Johnny Drummer says that “he travels by Globe rather than map.”

 

Travels include acclaimed performances at the Chicago Blues Festival, Pocono Blues Festival, University of Illinois Blues Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Money Road Festival in Mississippi, and several others in the US, Canada including places such as The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Poland, Quebec, France, and Beirut, Lebanon.

 

HONORS

***Noted on a Mississippi Highway Blues Marker in Alligator Mississippi

***Recognized by the City of Chicago for his contribution to Chicago music.

***First Place In The International Songs Writers Competition (2016)               

***The Chicago Blues Hall of Fame - Johnny Drummer has been Inducted Twice into The Chicago Blues Hall Of Fame

***Awarded the honor and title “Master Keyboardist, Drummer and Vocalist” in the Fraternal Order of Celestial Musicians sponsored by The Black American Blues Historical Society of Canada

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Johnny Drummer won First Place In The International Songs Writers Competition (2016), for his song AIN'T NO SECRET IN A SMALL TOWN, released by Earwig Music on the cd  BAD ATTITUDE. 

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