Skippy The Drum Machine
Description: A touring music concert for all ages teaching beatboxing, the art of making drum sounds with your mouth, alongside music education basics through the English language alphabet system, pattern recognition, and movement.
Performance history: Concept created in Fall 2024. In 2025, the program served 600 attendees across 17 shows in Missouri. In 2026, the program booked 52 performances across Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. Total attendees: 1,774 (last updated July 18, 2026).
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Description: Skippy demonstrates beatboxing, synthesizing, and looping, also known as sound laying, on an RC 505 Mark II Loop Station in Bondurant, Iowa. (2026)
Description: Skippy reads his children’s book “Boots, Andy, Cats: a world for all ages, shapes, and sizes” for an indoor field trip in Carlisle, Iowa. (2026)
Description: During Skippy The Drum Machine, Skippy leads dance and stretch breaks with attendees in LeClaire, Iowa. (2026)
Description: Skippy performs for Van Horne Public Library, a one-room library in Van Horne, Iowa. (2026)
Photo: Skippy with Carly from Bondurant Public Library. The library purchased a copy of Skippy's children’s book “Boots, Andy, Cats: a world for all ages, shapes, and sizes.” (2026)
Photo: Skippy with Carly’s daughter at St. Joseph Public Library. Carly purchased a copy of Skippy's children’s book “Boots, Andy, Cats: a world for all ages, shapes, and sizes.” (2026)
Photo: Skippy with Ari from Iowa City Public Library. His grandma purchased a copy of Skippy’s children’s book “Boots, Andy, Cats: a world for all ages, shapes, and sizes,” reviewing the book as “positive” and “full of inclusive messaging.' (2026)
Photo: Skippy with Jasper from Rock Hill Public Library. The library purchased a copy of Skippy’s children’s book “Boots, Andy, Cats: a world for all ages, shapes, and sizes.” (2026)
