A versatile performer, composer and arranger, percussionist Mark Duggan has been active in multiple musical genres for over 40 years. Duggan has worked with a variety of artists including Diana Krall, Charlie Haden, Maria Schneider, Petula Clark, Kiran Ahluwalia, Maryem Tollar, Sylvia Tyson, Andy Stochansky, Nelly Furtado, Oliver Schroer, Don Ross, Kevin Barrett and Rufus Wainwright. For ten years Duggan performed and recorded extensively with his own group, Vuja dé. He has been deeply involved with Brazilian popular music for over thirty years performing and/or recording with Celso Machado, Guinga, Henrique Cazes, Wagner Petrilli, Pedro Quental, Marco Tulio and Rogerio Souza among others. As a session musician, Duggan has played on dozens of film and commercial soundtracks and has appeared on over 100 other recordings. He is also a founding member of the Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (since 1983) which has toured throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Duggan has released six CDs of his own music which have received multiple award nominations from both the Juno and East Coast Music Awards. His most recent recordings are "Talismã" - a collection of instrumental samba and choro compositions with Brazilian guitarist Marco Tulio; and "Montreux 1988" - a live recording from the Montreux Jazz Festival with the group Eye Music.