Mike Dillon’s Punk Rock Percussion Consortium draws from Dillon’s formal percussive training at the University of North Texas, decades of experience as a band leader, and the inspiration sparked by the hundreds of percussionists that have crossed his path along the way, to realize his longtime ambition of creating a do-it- yourself percussion ensemble. In true punk rock fashion, MDPRPC brings together a dynamic rotating roster of up to 20 percussionists to play music written and/or arranged by Dillon, on instruments—marimbas, xylophones, drum kits, bells, chimes, bass marimba, congas, tablas drum, bongos, timpani, steelpan drums, timbales and so on—that the artist has collected over the course of his career. Since its inception, MDPRPC has featured artists Jason Marsalis, Stanton Moore, Earl Harvin, Jean- Paul Gaster (Clutch), Claude Coleman Jr.(Ween), Otto Schrang, Paul Thibodeaux, Simon Lott, Doug Belote, Brian Coogan, Brandon Bull, Jesse Paige, Stephen Montalvo, Aaron Walker, Luke Quaranta, Michael Gourdin, Daria Dzurik, Helen Gillet, Travis Montalvo, Anthony Cuccia, Weedie Braimah, Tiffany Lamson (The Givers), Nathan Lambertson, Cliff Hines, Brian Haas, Mark Southerland, and Clint Maedgen (Preservation Hall Band). After premiering in January 2015 at Dillon’s Gasa Gasa weekly residency in New Orleans, the MDPRPC has gone on to perform at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Bayou Boogaloo Music Festival, VooDoo Music and Arts Experience in New Orleans, and most recently at the Music Box Village during Jazz Fest 2017 in New Orleans.