Lee Free is a drummer, composer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Lee plays with Electric Junkyard Gamelan, Shirlala, the Circus Amok Band, The Tipton Saxophone Quartet and a colorful cast of independent artists. In 2010, Lee was awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Individual Artist Re-Grant for a project called “Brooklyn Bike Beat”. Bike Beat manifested as an on-line forum to share the excellent drummers of Brooklyn with the on-line community. The grant also spear headed the building of a Bicycle drum machine! The Bike will be featured in “Red Giant”, a 2011 performance at Dixon Place choreographed by Natalie Agee. Find Lee on tour with MEN this fall 2011, as well. www.leefreemusic.com