I'm Elise and I currently create and conduct publicity projects for select music, radio and entertainment clients.

Drummer PR was born in Spring 2007 after I left Sirius Satellite Radio as Director of Public Relations, where I'd primarily publicized its 67 music channels. That included artist-driven programming/channels and special events involving The Who, Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Steven van Zandt, the Metropolitan Opera, Frank Sinatra estate, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum, Elvis Presley Enterprises, David Johansen, Cousin Brucie and Eminem, among MANY others.

I also promoted such non-music programming and personalities as Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge®, Adam Curry, Jay Thomas and Dave Marsh, among others. I joined SIRIUS in June 2001 as Senior Manager of Feature Content, and won a New York Festivals award in 2003 for co-writing the special program, September 11th: The Healing of America.

Since I'm also a radio DJ, I also hosted a show on adult-alternative music channel 18/The Trend (which became The Spectrum in 2003) and voiced lots of promos, ads and intros (that's me bellowing, "NOW, FROM SIRIUS! FIRST TRAFFIC FOR PHILADELPHIA!" every 4 minutes on channel 149). For Sirius, I also interviewed artists like Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry, Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil) and others.

Prior to joining Sirius, I created and marketed music products for Q Records, a former division of QVC, Inc., including two early rock & roll collections with Dick Clark, a 17-volume classic country music collection with artist/club owner Mickey Gilley, and two Broadway cast albums, one of which was nominated for a GRAMMY.

Earlier, I was the first Director of Public Relations for the New Jersey State Aquarium in Camden, NJ (now called the Adventure Aquarium), and was PR manager for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. in Waterbury, Vermont in the late '80s, where I promoted the launches of Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and lots of company innovations. Although I've also created and conducted publicity campaigns for a variety of clients on a freelance basis, I developed agency experience as Senior Associate for Philadelphia PR agency Resnick Communications in the early '90s.

Elise Brown is my real name, which I've used in my other career as a rock radio host since the age of 17. I held simultaneous positions as drive-time on-air host and Promotions Director at WIZN-FM/Burlington, and later at WHEB-FM/Portsmouth, NH, and in Philly, I was afternoon drive host and Promotion Dir. at WXPN-FM (where I started the popular “Funky Friday” program, which still airs today).

I was also a full-time on-air host at WMMR-FM (1995-97) and a weekend host at modern rock WPLY-FM/Y100 (1997-2001), also in Philadelphia. Beyond the US, I briefly hosted mornings at English-language KLOV-FM in Paris, France during the 1980s. I got into PR by doing it for my college radio station, WRUV-FM/Burlington, VT. During college, I also did PR internships for my alma mater (UVM) before joining the university full-time right after graduation as a writer/editor. (I went to college with Phish; Mike Gordon was in one of my film classes, but they weren't very good then, and I was prejudiced anyway because I was helping to manage two "hotter" bands at the time: The Decentz and Pinhead.)

I also worked on Bob Marley's last tour, and dozens more great shows, while also working in concert and club promotion in Vermont, and worked weekends at a great record store co-owned by an ex-boyfriend, Pure Pop for Now People (I do know that I am fortunate to have had some of THE best jobs.)

Those were the days... Back to the present: A few of the organizations that have had me speak about radio (both terrestrial and satellite) and/or music promotion and publicity include SXSW, GRAMMY® Career Day, Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia and Delaware County Community College.

I have a BA in mass communications from the University of Vermont and also studied communications for 2 years at Syracuse University.

Currently, I'm a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of NARAS/The Recording Academy, am on the Advisory Commission for the Radio & TV Program at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey, and am a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Contact Elise Brown   elise@drummerpr.com