Drummers don’t get enough love. Mastering the art of drumming in any genre or style of music is no easy feat. Still, these four female drummers managed to become some of the best of all time; and they ...

A legend in Detroit’s music scene is using her talent and passion to shine a spotlight on women in music. Drummer and composer Gayelynn McKinney is part of a legendary Detroit family that has helped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like some of the songs she gets her students to play, University of Tennessee alumna Kelly Ballard has a naturally upbeat way of ...

If you look backward through the history of rock 'n' roll, you'll find that the ratio of women to men has always been, in a word, unbalanced. At the time of this writing in 2025, less than 10 percent ...

"Lord, I thank you" is the Nigerian Yoruba meaning of Oluwamodupe "Dupe" Oloyede's name. "I am truly living up to my name right now." Oluwamodupe Oloyede has been named the new head drum major of the ...

Everybody like coming in trying to cheer me on and just really getting excited that I was gonna be the next major. Jackson State senior Arielle Woods relives the moment she was hand picked to be part ...

For a group of women, they've got a language all their own, through the power of drumming. They've found that it's therapeutic with every beat, through a recently formed nonprofit called Pittsburgh ...

In 2005, Kelly Ballard became the first female drum major for the University of Tennessee's Pride of the Southland Marching Band. Despite her historic achievement, some fans blamed the football team's ...