The Drum Boogie Festival®, a multi-cultural arts event, celebrates and promotes 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 which was held in 2009 and 2011.

The Drum Boogie Festival is held biennially. The next day long festival is scheduled for September 2013. The next Drum Boogie Event will be during the inaugural Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts at the historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY this summer, July 13-15. The Woodstock Chimes® Fund is the presenting sponsor of the Drum Boogie Festival® but donations are greatly appreciated.

The Woodstock Chimes Fund was established in 1986 by Woodstock Chimes founders and owners Garry and Diane Kvistad to support the Arts and Food and Shelter Programs in the Hudson Valley and beyond. Woodstock Chimes believes a community can be judged by how it values the Arts and the way in which its members respond to those in need. What’s more, we believe we have a responsibility as a corporate citizen to give back to the community which has helped make our success possible.

Drum Boogie Festival Photos courtesy of Gary Hilstead, Diane Kvistad, Bob Murray, Doug James and Nancy Donskoj.