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MODERN DRUMMER FEATURE!!!

December 2, 2023

Holy Moly!! Mama, I made the paper! Check me out in the December '22 issue of Modern Drummer magazine. Available online or at newsstands around the globe.

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BIG FAT FIVE PODCAST

November 4, 2022

Take a gander at me and the joyful Ben Hilzinger discuss the 5 most influential records to my playing. I go on and on (literally) about how cool these first records helped transform me in to the player I am today.

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THE WORKING DRUMMER PODCAST

July 22, 2021

If you were ever curious about my upbringing and shenanigans I got in to as a "yute" click below to find out.

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TOUR DATES

June 9 The Southern Charlottesville, VA w/Brad Goodall
June 10 Aisle 5 Atlanta, GA w/Brad Goodall
June 11 The Pour House Charleston, SC w/Brad Goodall
June 12 The Pour House Charleston, SC w/Brad Goodall
June 16-19 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Telluride, CO w/Tyler Childers
July 4 Willie Nelson's Annual 4th of July Picnic Austin, TX w/Tyler Childers
July 14 Pullman Square Concert Series Huntington, WV w/El Dorodo
July 23 Cross Creek on Main White Sulpher Springs, WV w/El Dorodo
July 29 The Pour House Charleston, SC w/El Dorodo
July 30 Salvage Station Asheville, NC w/El Dorodo
August 12 Ashland Concert Series Ashland, KY w/El Dorodo
August 13 Rails & Ales Beer Festival Huntington, WV w/El Dorodo
September 28 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO w/Tyler Childers
September 29 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO w/Tyler Childers
October 11 KY Uprising:Rupp Arena with Chris Stapleton & Dwight Yoakam Lexington, KY w/Tyler Childers
December 10 Warren Haynes Presents Christmas Jam Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville, NC w/Tyler Childers

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Only in his 30s, Elkins has drummed professionally for more than 20 years having begun touring playing drums at age 12 for his dad’s classic country unit, The Elkins Brothers Band. A 2014 jazz studies graduate of the Marshall University College of Music, Elkins was the drummer for Marshall Jazz Ensemble’s European tour that included performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Influenced by a wild kaleidoscope of drummers including Levon Helm, Steve Gadd, Steve Jordan, James Gadson,and old jazzers like Art Blakey, Elkins, has held the drum chair and often times backing vocals for his long-time friend, Tyler Childers. For the past 8 years it has been an adventure in feeling out the right rhythm and textures to wrap the right sonic cloak around his great songs. Amidst the pandemic of 2020, Elkins revived an old project El Dorodo with longtime best friends and Foodstamp bandmates where he occupies the throne and sings lead vocals.

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