Kathy Burkly, drummer and rhythmic force behind Boston-based Girls’ Night Out, says her grandmother regrets buying her a Sears snare drum 19 years ago. “She really wanted me to be a lawyer,” says Kathy. “She was very disappointed that I took up music as a profession. I told her many times, ‘You were the one who started it.'” Well, Kathy hasn’t been studying for the bar exam, but her grandmother’s Christmas gift did start the 31-year-old drummer on her way to becoming a different kind of professional: a percussionist who has toured widely, played and recorded music from country to rock, and prides herself on her versatility and ability to handle any musical style that’s demanded. Her recording credits include percussion work for everything from jingles to country work with John Lincoln Wright & The Sourmash Review. She played and recorded with the popular, but now disbanded, Wheatstraw, and made […]

August 1986 Issue