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Cathy Kielar
Since 1988, Cathy Kielar has been facilitating children and family fun in private and community settings throughout the Triangle and is a trained Village Music Circle Drumcircle Facilitator and is a member of the Drum Circle Facilitators Guild. Cathy
has twenty-five years of experience as an educator and family entertainer. As a ventriloquist, Cathy has shared her puppets through schools, festivals, private and corporate gatherings, hospitals and children's grief groups. As a Hospice
volunteer, she and Bobbie Marshall co-created a Children's Grief Education program called Cool Tools for Coping. She is a past public school teacher and Creative Arts in the Public Schools (CAPS) artist. Since 2002 she has received numerous trainings in drum circle facilitation with Arthur Hull, and she now enthusiastically takes her facilitation skills out to her community and creates fun and connecting rhythm events. Cathy is trained in High/Scope Learning techniques, which combine drumming, movement, songs and rhymes to assist a child's whole body and mind development.
Cathy is currently playing in a women's frame drumming troupe, Sancta. In 2003, Cathy attended California Brazil camp. She came back home with the burning desire to have a local samba school, found a teacher, Eduardo de Souza, and started Carolina Samba School. Although Cathy is no longer with the samba school, she is in forever-study of Middle-Eastern doumbek rhythms, Brazilian bateria rhythms, and African djembe rhythms. She loves to drum! Her drumming teachers include: Arthur Hull; Layne Redmond; Ubaka Hill; Jim Donovan;
Matt Savage; Jim Roberts; Ronnie Pulley.
Cathy is also a found sound percussion artist displaying her art installation,
Sounds From Around Town: Unleashing the Sounds of Everyday Objects at the Scrap Exchange Art Gallery on August 15 - September 14, 2008.
Shannon Morrow
Shannon is a proud winner of 2008 Indies Arts Award! - Yeah, Shannon! She has been drumming for 16 years. Her goal is to use artistic process to facilitate empowerment and creativity for everyone she comes into contact with! She has studied improvisation and drumset technique with jazz heavyweights such as Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, and Tim Mulvenna. She is currently studying Deep Listening with composer Pauline Oliveros, and is working towards obtaining her certification in SoundPainting - a musical sign language designed to facilitate creative music experiences for musicians and non-musicians alike! In addition, Shannon is part of The Scrap Exchange’s team, and loves her work educating kids about the environment, re-use, and art-making. Shannon currently directs Durham’s independent community marching band Scene of The Crime Rovers, and plays with several rock and improvisational ensembles in the Triangle area. 
Shannon Morrow received a 2008 Indies Arts Award for her many contributions to improv music. Go Shannon! Comments like this surface: “But of all her activities, Morrow describes her role as ‘rhythm facilitator’ at Durham's Music Explorium as the love of her life, and her aim in that role—to maintain a space where people feel free to discover their innate rhythm, breaking down the artist/ spectator divide and restoring to music its ancient, communal function—seems like the purest distillation of what she does.” – Independent Weekly article on Shannon Morrow for her Indies Arts Award, July, 2008.
Sue-Anne Solem
 Sue-Anne has been teaching and performing for over 45 years. Over the years she was a dance and yoga teacher, and has performed as singer, dancer and actor in many musicals, choral concerts, dance concerts and plays. Over the past three years drum circle facilitation has become a passion and she trained as a Village Music Circle Drumcircle Facilitator. She taught pre-school and elementary school for 14 years and for the past 15 years has been a gifted education specialist for both Durham and Chapel Hill Public Schools. Currently she is creating and performing music with a four-part women's group, Jewelsong, which she founded, and with women's drumming group, Sancta. Recently retired from teaching in January, but her interest in and love for children has not abated! She created an afterschool enrichment program for gifted students, which began this fall, and tutors gifted students. She is very excited about sharing her skills and talents and being a part of the Music Explorium family!
Stacy Grove
Stacy Grove is a Certified HealthRhythms Drum Facilitator. She has collaborated with professional rhythm facilitators and medical staff in the use of rhythm and sound for adults and children with special needs or illness. She combines more than 25 years as a hands-on experiential educator in the natural sciences and mentor for at-risk youth. As a minister and associate chaplain at Wake Med Cary, Stacy brings presence and music to those with life altering illness in hospital settings, nursing homes and senior residential communities. She focuses on heart-centered experiences, inviting stress relief and restoration of balance
to the body’s natural healing energies through the use of rhythm and sound.
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