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Drums, Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Sarah Allen has drummed her way through a vast range of musical situations, performing and recording throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Asia with jazz, pop, folk, theatrical, klezmer and classical ensembles and productions, including Blue Man Group, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Six!; Three Musketeers; Seussical), The Goodman Theatre (Jungle Book), Writers Theatre (Sweet Charity), Broadway in Chicago (A Taste of Things to Come), Drury Lane Oak Brook (Cabaret; Sugar) and Steppenwolf Studio Theater (Him; The Horn), the Aretha Franklin Orchestra, the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (Orbert Davis), The Last Word (with poet Marc Kelly Smith), Bobby Conn, Bobbi Wilsyn, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, Fred Simon, Douglas Lofstrom’s New Quartet, and Jellyeye Drum Theater.