TYLER DAVIS
Tyler Davis is a professional drummer of 10 years and private drum instructor of 5 years based on the South Shore of Massachusetts. His career in drumming started in the fourth grade when his parents bought him a Ludwig snare drum. In Junior High he became the lead drumset player, a position he held until his senior year when he received the Louis Armstrong Award for best jazz musician at Silver Lake Regional High School.
Tyler began performing in Boston with multiple bands as a teenager and eventually co-founded the band SixFoxWhiskey in 2014 with Chris Ballerini. Since 2015, Tyler has toured nationally with SixFoxWhiskey and released 3 studio albums, the last of which helped them to win “Best in Massachusetts” at the New England Music Awards. Through these years the band has opened for several notable acts including Fuel, Nate Smith, Badfish, Ripe, The Elovators, Rob Compa of Dopapod and Kung Fu. They’ve also been featured in major festivals such Levitate Music and Arts Festival, Rhode Island Music Arts Festival, Flannel Jam, Tom Tom Festival, Great Outdoors Jam, and Strange Creek.
In 2015, Tyler and Chris started a popular open mic that has been running strong for 7 years on the South Shore. Tyler has worked to build a career as a live and studio session drummer, performing hundreds of live shows each year with SixFoxWhiskey and other other notable acts including The Quins, Crooked Coast, Quadrafunk, Over The Bridge, 3rd Left and The Daybreakers. In 2017 Tyler began teaching in-home private drum lessons to students all over the South Shore. After quickly growing his business, he moved to a studio at Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke, MA where he continues to teach professionally. In addition to his own practice, he is the Drum Instructor at Spotlight Music and Theatre in Scituate, MA.
KEN DELLOT
Based out of the South Shore of Massachusetts, Ken Dellot has been a professional working drummer for the past decade staying busy by both teaching and gigging. He picked up the sticks as a toddler, inspired by his late father Dennis Dellot Sr. who was also a professional musician touring the United States and Europe as the drummer for Sleepy Labeafe. Ken continued his passion for playing the drums through school under mentorship of Mr. John Smith.
His first experience teaching was as an assistant to Smith’s jazz band and concert band at the PCC program, a collegiate camp offered by Bridgewater State University in the summers of 2007, 2008 and 2009. He would also go on to teach privately during these years.
Ken has been playing gigs with a wide variety of bands since 2006 covering the genres of rock, reggae, jazz, hip hop, R&B, funk, pop country, and progressive. He was the original drummer of the band Emma At The Lion and is currently the full time drummer of the band Professor Caffeine and The Insecurities. He has spent the last 4 years as a hired session drummer for both live gigs and studio work. He has earned a reputation for being the number one session drummer to call due to his hard work and professionalism. He is a trusted employee of many bands, most notably The Quins, Total Strangers, The Country Mile Band, and The Castaways. Ken has also shared festival stages playing with members of Fortunate Youth. With hundreds of performances under his belt both with cover bands and original bands, he has played rooms from packed clubs to giant music festivals for thousands of people.
SEAN BALL
At age 10, Sean was given a practice pad, drumsticks, and drum lessons for Christmas. He was taking drum set lessons when his teacher, Katie Zanello, invited him to a Bagpipe Band practice. By 16, he was playing the snare drum in a Pipe Band that would compete in Scotland at the highest level in the world annually. At age 20, he led a drum corps to the World Championships in Scotland. The following year, he led a drum corps to a 4th place finish in the World Championship in their respective competing level. Throughout this experience he taught one-on-one lessons as well as workshops with a team of instructors.
At 23, he fell back in love with the drum set and started taking lessons under Martin Vazquez on Cape Cod, where he eventually began substitute teaching. In late 2018, Sean joined The New Motif, an exploratory funk band that originated on Cape Cod. They’ve played many notable venues and music festivals, including: Toad’s Place (New Haven, CT), Bethel Woods Center For The Arts (Bethel, NY), Paradise Rock Club (Boston, MA), Nectar’s (Burlington, VT), Ullrs Tavern (Winter Park, CO), and Putnam Place (Saratoga, NY). Supporting acts such as, Kung Fu, Mihali, Pink Talking Fish, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Soule Monde, The Werks, and many more. Sean has experience teaching a wide variety of music genres to students ranging from 6 to 75 years old.
JOSH HAMBLIN
Born and raised in Plymouth MA, multi-instrumentalist Josh Hamblin found his passion for music at the age of 13, when he joined his high school’s drumline.
During those years, he received formal percussive education from performers and educators of several world champion groups, including The Cadets, The Blue Coats, Carolina Crown, UMass Amherst, King Philip High School, and Dartmouth High School. Simultaneously, Josh was taking drumset lessons, playing in the jazz band and jazz combo, and beginning to play and write music with people who would eventually become his bandmates.
After graduating from high school, Josh played snare drum in The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps in Nashua, NH in 2011 and 2013. It was in 2011 that he also began teaching privately and gigging regularly on drums and percussion. Josh attended College at Syracuse University and later UMass Dartmouth as a music performance major with a focus on jazz and world music. He played in various ensembles, receiving experience in improvisation and recording, as well as traditional and modern orchestral playing.
Since 2011, Josh has been involved with many musical endeavors on the South Shore. This includes teaching marching bands and private lessons, playing in orchestras and musicals, and working with performers of all musical genres on keys and drums as a hired session player. He has also been teaching, writing, and arranging for the Plymouth Marching Band as their percussion instructor, and working with their Winter Percussion Ensemble in a similar capacity since 2013. Additionally, Josh has been teaching and arranging for Plymouth North High’s jazz & pop band since 2018. In 2015 he began giving lessons at Middle Street School of Music in Plymouth where he teaches piano, drums, and percussion.
In 2018 he formed the band Birds Already with his close friends. Their first EP “Give and Give” was released in 2021.
JEFF ROSEN
Jeff Rosen has been a full time touring musician since 2012, and running Cherrywood Records as a full service recording studio since 2019. Rosen’s fascination with audio recording started at the age of 18 when he produced his bands first album, and ever since he has been studying, creating, and honing his skills within the industry.
Since opening Cherrywood Records, Jeff has worked with notable acts such as Sarah Martin, The Freight, Gracie Grace & All the Good Boys, Seth “Zak” Jacobson, Blacktop Strut, and Donny Hayes to name a few. In 2022 Jeff was nominated for Producer Of The Year by the New England Music Awards.
Within the studio, Jeff offers professional quality analog equipment along with top of the line software to make sources sound the best they possibly can. The hybrid setup includes a 32 channel analog console running into Pro Tools, and includes both industry standard plugins, as well as several outboard compressors and preamps to match to your source.
Through the years Jeff has become a seasoned engineer within his domain, offering his services producing, recording, mixing, and mastering for students enrolled in Making The Band.
DECLAN KELEHAN
Declan grew up in Braintree, and has been living in the Pembroke area for the last few years. Declan has been playing music professionally as a solo acoustic musician and as a bass player with local bands Blacktop Strut and Gracie Grace & All The Goodboys. He is co-host of the weekly South Shore Open Mic at Soundcheck Studios with Tyler Davis where he also takes professional photos of local musicians.
Photography and video has always been a passion of his. Declan is thrilled for the opportunity to continue to combine his life in music with multimedia. His goals are to create exciting content for you, and to help you capture important memories and milestones. Declan runs his own multimedia company Declan Kelehan Media.