Adam Riviere has studied music and percussion for over 40 years and has performed and taught the traditional percussion styles of the Middle East and North Africa in major cities of the United States, Germany, and Canada. He has also led classes and been seen on the stages of such well-known dance festivals as Tribal Revolution (later Fusion Evolution), ATS Convention 2020, and has had the honor to work with and accompany dancers such as Kamala Almanzar, Artemis Mourat, and Phaedra Darwish, just to name a few. Adam is the percussionist for the Indianapolis-based Middle Eastern fusion group Indy Raqs and owns and operates a recording/rehearsal studio in Indianapolis called Playground Productions Studio.