Michael Washington

Its A NOLA Thang! How I got hooked to New Orleans Music.

I first began learning about this music from Kid Dutch back in 2003 and cut my teeth playing bass drum with his group The Perseverance brass band in…

Back To Bogotá!

I am on my way back to Bogotá! Heading to the southside of the city for the first time to help Guardia Fantasma solidify the fundamental technical and musical building blocks for their percussion section. It…

A tiny meditating Buddha statue in front of the reclining Buddha
 

It is with great pleasure that I am releasing more photos taken on my 2010 trip to Thailand!…

Last Day In NYC

Taken from the corner of Prospect Park in Flatbush

The last day in NYC, the day in which I had originally planned to be a tourist the whole day and take lots of photos…

                                                                                                     The Sunset over St Petersburg Beach

Another Summer of beach photos!

So, we have finally reach that time of year again in Florida when the weather is extremely sunny, hot and unbearably humid and the rain and…

I am spending this afternoon getting ready for the Frida Kahlo event tomorrow at The Dali Museum, performing with Rhonda J. Nelson and The Irritable Tribe of Poets, by listening to the music of Mexican artists such as Lila…

                                                                                                      A fresh self portrait for the new year!

Happy new year everybody!
 

After coming off of a New Year's Eve concert with my band Wahh (an East meets West fusion Indian classical/folk & western R&B, rock, jazz…

It has been a work in progress for some time and finally, I have the Spanish version of my site up and running so that I can better…

I spent some quality time this weekend doing some maintenance on my vintage Ludwig drums! Since most of the mahogany used in instrument and furniture production in the US in the 60s/70 was from trees in South America, I of…