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Hooked on drumming and rhythm since his youth,
Dan Kruse is today an ever-growing percussive artist
who values the challenges, the artistic diversity, and
the opportunities for musical expression and
contribution offered by being a part of Thousand
Gathered. After a two-decade career in
communications, Dan enrolled at the University of
Arizona School of Music, earning a degree in Fine Arts
Studies in 2006. His studies encompassed Percussion
Performance, Ethnomusicology and Anthropology,
including a perspective-altering two month journey
across West Africa in 2004. Today, he also performs
with a Tucson-area progressive jazz group and with
the U of A World Music Gang, and continues to
expand his repertoire of musical skills through the
study of frame drum, Irish Bodhran, Indian tabla and
other world percussion instruments. Dan and his wife
Gina are active members of the Stone Curves
co-housing community in north-central Tucson.
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