William Clipman - Myths and Masks
b'Will Clipman began playing his father\\u2019s drums and his mother\\u2019s piano at the age of three. He played his first professional gig at fourteen, and has since then mastered a pan-global palette of over one hundred percussion instruments in addition to the traditional drumset. Will is a seven-time GRAMMY\\xae Nominee, a three-time Native American Music Award Winner, a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award Winner, a New Age Reporter Music Award Winner, a two-time TAMMIE Award Winner, and has been inducted into the Tucson Musicians Museum for his contributions to the musical community in his hometown. Will has recorded over sixty albums, including over thirty for Canyon Records, where he is regarded as the house percussionist. In addition to his solo work, Will performs and records with R. Carlos Nakai and William Eaton, among many other internationally-acclaimed artists and ensembles. Will\\u2019s solo CD Pathfinder earned a GRAMMY\\xae Nomination for Best New Age Album. His Planet of Percussion\\xae performance and workshop provides a hands-on tour of world music rhythm and polyrhythm.\\n\\nWill is also an accomplished maskmaker and storyteller. His Myths & Masks\\xae performance and workshop combines his original mask art, mythopoetic storytelling, and multicultural world music, and is now available as a DVD. Will has provided over two hundred workshops, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, full-length artist-in-residencies, and self-realization events to elementary, middle, and high schools, colleges and universities, art galleries, libraries, adult prisons, juvenile detention facilities, senior centers, hospitals, parks and recreation programs, retreat centers, spas and resorts.\\xa0\\n\\nFor more insights into Will\\u2019s creative world, please visit www.willclipman.com'