Kera M. Washington has been performing and teaching music using Boston as her base for eleven years. She currently resides in Providence, RI, and just completed her first year in a doctoral program in ethnomusicology at Brown University. Her first love is percussion, which was found while studying ethnomusicology at Wellesley College and Wesleyan University. She studies with master drummers from Ghana, Haiti and Brazil, and has traveled to Haiti and to Brazil to advance her studies. She is on faculty at Wellesley College, and has taught at MIT and Northeastern University; taught music at St. Peter School in Cambridge, and presented music residencies in the Boston Public Schools through Arts In Progress. Her work is featured on "America's Music: Songs From American History," produced by McDougal/Littel in May 2000, and she is producing her first CD, african roots, anticipated release, October 2002. She performs and has toured internationally with Tjovi Ginen, featuring Haitian mizik rasin (roots music); with Mystic Jammers, reggae; with In The House, 60s-90s Motown, R&B, & Funk; and with zili roots, her own mostly-female band performing original music of the African diaspora, with their own CD anticipated in October 2002.

Kera M. Washington's solo debut, "african roots"

Kera at the Monk Institute Jazz Hand Drumming competition