Draft:Ken Shorley
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Ken Shorley (born August 11, 1969) is a Canadian percussionist, educator and music producer, based in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He was the 2017 recipient of the Valley Arts award [1]presented by the Deep Roots Music Cooperative. He has been a faculty member of the Acadia University School of Music since 1999, where he teaches courses in world drumming and Sundanese gamelan.
He is a long-time shishya (disciple) of the master South Indian mrdangam player, Trichy Sankaran. Shorley and Sankaran collaborated on the 2011 instructional DVD, RhythmWise[2], which focuses on an intricate type of Carnatic rhythmic composition known as korvai.
Shorley performs on a variety of hand drums and percussion instruments, and has become associated with the contemporary pan-global frame drum style, popularized by American percussionists, Glen Velez and John Bergamo, in part through his online teaching of beginner and intermediate frame drum techniques[3].
Since 2009, Shorley has been performing and teaching the Sundanese (West Javanese) style of gamelan known as degung. He is leader and artistic director of OMBAK Gamelan Ensemble, the first professional gamelan ensemble in Atlantic Canada. OMBAK made its debut[4] at Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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[edit]- ^ "2017 Valley Arts Award – Ken Shorley". deeprootsmusic.ca. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ^ Ken Shorley (2012-08-14). Trichy Sankaran and Ken Shorley: The Art of the Korvai. Retrieved 2025-02-01 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Ken Shorley". YouTube. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
- ^ "Performers pick the must-see concerts at this year's Scotia Festival of Music". The Globe and Mail. 2023-05-25. Retrieved 2025-02-01.