#16 Valerie Naranjo- Percussionist for SNL, The Lion King and Gyil Master!

The photo of Valerie was taken by J. Maya Luz.

Damon an Marcos start the episode with talking about the music festival Coachella. One of the featured artists was Hans Zimmer. 

This is the Ed Sheeran cover done by Walk Off The Earth with children's instruments.

This is the brand new Kenny Aronoff book mentioned in the podcast. 

This is where you can get more info and tickets to the DIY Musician Conference in Nashville this August. 

This is one company, SoFar Sounds, that hosts acoustic house concerts. 

These are some of the travel groups that you can look into for travel to Cuba. This is info on the Havana Jazz Festival. Here's one of Damon's favorite videos taken by the Late Chuck Silverman from his "Drumset Artists of Cuba" video released in 1997. 

This is the new drum pad that we mentioned by Reflexx.

This is the Splice App and the Acapella App.

This is the Tito Puente Tribute Concert on Friday.

You can follow Valerie (and her husband Barry Olson) in their musical adventures here at their Website and Valerie on Facebook.

This is info on the Leigh Howard Stephens Marimba Seminar.

Here's one example of a study abroad program in Ghana where you can learn the music and dance of the culture.