Ben Culver is a drummer, percussionist, band leader, educator, and producer hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, and works throughout the GTA. Ben’s love for music knows little boundaries, performing and recording drums and percussion in styles ranging from rock, big band jazz, modern jazz, and world jazz fusion, as well as international drumming traditions like samba reggae from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and the djembe traditions from Guinea and Burkina Faso. Ben leads a samba reggae bateria called Hamilton Beat Harmonic, and educates alongside his teacher, Mestre Pato Irie. Recently, through his studies at Humber Polytechnic, Ben has been producing a debut EP with a band composed of Alex McPherson on bass Miles Cake-Bread Kraus on guitar, and Ali Rashid on saxophone, exploring compositions from Ornette Coleman and originals in a free-improvised setting, creating musical imagery and interest in a
melody-forward approach.