Lindsey Schust is a NH native, singer songwriter, percussionist, educator and composer. She started her Ragged Mt. Band to create a creative outlet to perform her Country Western songs as well as her Afro-Cuban compositions. See more about Lindsey at http://www.lindseyschustmusic.com
BIOGRAPHY: Lindsey Schust
Lindsey Schust NH native, performing musician, percussion teacher, composer, singer-songwriter, professional ADHD coach, and recording artist. She is a percussion faculty member at the Concord Community Music School in Concord- where she co-directs the Songweaver Drummers, and the Timbre Drum Ensemble with Grace Schust.
She performs African music for communities and schools with Grace Schust, and performs in the summer with her band which she formed in 2011.
Musical influences and training combine classical composition, Afro-Cuban percussion, West African drumming, and Americana, Folk, Bluegrass and Country Music.
Grace Schust– from a musical family, her father Bob Grasmere was band leader and drummer for a big band in the 1940s before WWII, Grace sang all her life in choirs in highschool, church and college. At age 36 she decided to learn the conga drum which lead her to a life long study of hand drumming from Africa and the African diaspora. She started a non-profit “Arts Bridge the World” which brought percussionists and dancers from the West Indies and West Africa to perform locally and give residencies in school in the 1980s. She joined Songweavers Womens Chorus in 1993 and started the first ever all women’s drum group in NH, the Songweaver Drummers, which she still runs today with her daughter Lindsey.
Jim Schust– Colorado native, Jim learned his first chord in college and then picked up the guitar at age 55 to study with guitarists Click Horning of Night Kitchen and Tom Eslick, late folk singer-songwriter, author and English teacher. Jim helped form the original band in 2012 with the debut of “Hippie Hill” at South Church in Concord NH with the Songweavers’ womens chorus. He is a master woodworker and formed an African drum building company “Timbre Drums” with his wife Grace, and created drums that have been shown by Spike Lee in the Brooklyn Museum.
Paul Currier– “uncle Paul” a neighbor and old friend of the Schusts joined the band in 2013, and brought a fiddle, mandolin and dobro and a handful of folksongs. He has been a VIP player ever since. A multi-instrumentalist and singer, Paul started learning violin as a child and has always played music throughout his life. Today he also sings with the Kearsarge Chorale and plays for the Kearsarge Community Band.
Robert Grasmere– Lindsey’s uncle, and Grace’s brother- from the same musical family, remembers singing in the car with their mother Evelyn and playing drums in school. As early member of Aerosmith when they were kids in Sunapee with a dream, he played drums in the barn where they started. He always travels with a harmonica and says it’s the best instrument to practice because it fits in your pocket. A film maker, screen writer, and visual effects producer, Robert lives part-time in California and New Hampshire.
lindsey schust & the ragged mountain band 