Latin & African Percussion
Asher Delerme is an accomplished and versatile percussionist. His formal training began in the renowned world music program at Wesleyan University. In his freshmen year he toured the United States with Abraham Kobina Adzenyah. He traveled to Ghana, West Africa in his junior year to study Ghanaian drumming and dance. After graduation in 1978, he returned to his Native New York City where he began to study and perform Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian music.
As a performer, Asher has toured the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, Japan and played Carnegie Hall. He has performed with such luminaries as Hilton Ruiz, Paquito De Rivera, Dr. Billy Taylor, Jay Hoggard, Foday Musa Suso, Marion Meadows, Pete Seager, Jimmy Sabater and Miles Jaye, among many others. He has collaborated with singers, poets, and gospel, theater, dance, percussion and orchestral ensembles. His recording resume includes television/radio soundtracks, jingles and over 25 albums/CDs.
Asher is currently a founder and principal member of the award wining World Beat band, MIKATA (All of Us). He continues to perform and record Latin and African percussion extensively with traditional and non-traditional, salsa, pop, and jazz groups in New York and New England.
In addition, Asher is a seasoned educational/performance artist who is listed with the CT Commission for the Arts Contours program and the Young Audiences of America program. He is a former artist-in-residence for the New York State Commission on the Arts. As a musician and educator, Asher has been exploring the powerful connection between human development, the arts and learning. His cumulative knowledge in psychosocial development and the ethnomusicology of African, Caribbean, and Jazz musical genres provide him with a unique training perspective in music education, multicultural issues and social development.