Drum Boogie Festival®
is a free, one-day, family-oriented, multi-cultural arts and educational event, celebrating and promoting the many styles of high quality percussion music found throughout the world. The festival strives to keep a balance of entertainment, enlightenment, excitement and equality. All performances will highlight percussion instruments and percussion performers while sometimes including other instrumentalists, dancers and singers. Garry Kvistad, founder and CEO of Woodstock Chimes®, is a professional musician and creator / Executive Director of the Drum Boogie Festival.
Check out performances from the 2017 festival which include many groups for the 2019 festival!
Jack DeJohnette will perform at this year’s Drum Boogie Festival, as he has done every year since our premiere event in 2009!
Jack DeJohnette
“Garry has created a unique festival that celebrates the art of percussion from the world, it has been great fun to participate in it and I really enjoy seeing, hearing and meeting such a diversity of major talent from all over. I consider it to be very successful and look forward its ongoing cultural contribution to the richness of the Town of Woodstock and the Hudson Valley.”
– Jack DeJohnette
GRAMMY® Award-Winning Jazz Musician