Skippy The Drum Machine: a touring music concert for all ages
Description: "Skippy The Drum Machine" is a touring music concert for all ages teaching beatboxing, making drum sounds with your mouth, and music education! The program includes arts-centered learning outcomes through an interdisciplinary approach using the English language, pattern recognition, movement, and songwriting.
Performance history:
Concept created in Fall 2024.
In 2025, the concert toured statewide through Missouri, serving 626 attendees across 17 shows.
In 2026, the concert toured regionally through Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois, serving 2,924 attendees across 51 shows.
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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)