Brenda Roberts

Instruments Played:
Tenor drum, Snare drum (played trumpet back in my school days…way, way back).

Hobbies:
The band doesn't really leave much time for anything else...I do a lot of renovation work on the house (if that counts) and I am taking a class on stained glass (for the renovation work on the house)

What originally got you into drumming?
For no reason I can explain, I have always had a "thing" about drums from a very early age (I used to play on coffee cans for hours which drove my family nuts). Unfortunately, when I was old enough for the school band I was not permitted to play the drums so I literally picked the trumpet because the trumpet section sat closest to the percussion section in the concert band. Years later, I accompanied a friend of mine to a local Highland Games because she loved bagpipes. I didn't originally want to go, but she lured me in with the promise that there would be drumming as well and that turned out to be a serious understatement, it wasn't just drumming, it was the most incredible style of drumming I had ever heard...it had to be fate...no more coffee cans for me!