#2 Kit Chatham-Percussionist for Blast! and Cirque du Soleil.

Kit Chatham is an internationally recognized percussionist, performer, composer, arranger, and educator.  Kit’s experience in many forms of percussion, including drum set, world percussion, orchestral percussion, and marching percussion, makes him a highly sought after performer & clinician and create a percussive sound that is uniquely his own. 

Kit currently is the Drummer/Percussionist and Assistant Band Leader for Cirque du Soleil’s newest touring show, Kurios, and when not on tour resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kit has enjoyed performing all over the world in front of millions of specators over the years with other Cirque du Soleil productions: Kooza (2013-2014), Zumanity (2012-2013), and Mystere (2013). Before those shows, Kit was the original Percussionist/Drummer for both Cirque du Soleil creations Viva Elvis (2009-2012) and Corteo (2005-2009) where he never missed a single show in over 5000+ shows.

You can check out Kit's website Here, and follow him here and here and here.

In the show we talked about the Salsa Guidebook, the Ed Uribe book, The Royal Hartigan book and the Frank Malabe/Bob Weiner book.

We also talked about Drumtacs and the Rock-n-Roller cart.

Kit uses Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Yamaha drums, Evans drumheads, Sabian Cymbals, Kat percussion, Off World percussion, and FXpansion gear exclusively.