URBAN DRUM CREW
Singapore's Premier Percussion Drum Ensemble Group
Boon is the founder and director of the Urban Drum Crew. Urban Drum Crew or UDC is the “OG” for many innovative and Original drumming styles that came out of Singapore. Often imitated but never equaled, the ORIGINAL playing styles, approach & methods of the Urban Drum Crew are first & unique throughout the World since 2005. One of their top OG performance is their Water LED Drums performance which has been enjoyed by more than 100 million audience from more than 15 countries. Boon also created the world’s first LASER DrumSticks & Firehead sticks.
Urban Drum Crew was the leading performance drum team at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games
2010 Opening and Closing ceremonies and trained 3 secondary schools for the drum performances.
Boon formed The Urban Drum Kids initiative (UDK), kids from 6-9 years old and entered them into
OKTO’s One Minute of Fame 2013. The Urban Drum Kids impressed the judges and outshined
more than 100 other entries and completed this journey as 3rd place and the only drum group that
have gotten so far in this competition.
In 2015, the Urban Drum kids went on to perform a full 20 mins percussion show totally unassisted by any adults.
In 2017, UDC was hired by Scoot to do a breakthrough new thing! To be the first to play a
drum performance 40,000 feet in the skies!
While some people may frown over this, nevertheless, most of the passengers enjoyed it.
This is great KUDOS to Scoot for having the boldness to be different and think out of the box!
Please enjoy the video from Scoot.
In June of 2022, Boon and Urban Drum Crew was hired professionally to perform in
Vancouver CANADA for a Europe USA MNC. Boon’s work and choreography with
Urban Drum Crew was selected over American & European percussion groups and
was flown halfway around the world to deliver a great choreographed drum opening
for this client. This is an unprecedented accolade for a Singapore-based
choreographer and drum crew.
As lead instructor, Boon has taught drumming to some of the highest corporate professionals
from:
DBS | UOB | OCBC | Maybank | Standard Chartered | PWC | KPMG | Prudential | NTUC
and many more!
Till date, Urban Drum Crew have already performed and impacted more than 1500
events and shows professionally at corporate events and live TV broadcast events all around the
world. Other than Singapore, UDC have been hired professionally to perform in these
countries too: Canada, Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau (Macao), India, Indonesia,
Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia. As a testament to being a
professional group, any overseas trips are fully taken care of by their clients and the performers
are fully paid as well.
Go to UrbanDrumCrew.com for more information or bookings.
First drum performance in the air
“UDC’s passion stirs them to constantly defy and
to define a truly unique Singaporean style for drumming
and the art form itself as opposed to adopting ethnic
and/or popular and/or mass appeal drumming cultures.”
Since 2005, UDC has changed the way audience perceives a percussion group and anchored the trend of percussion groups performing the opening item for many important events.
