FEMME
CELTIQUE

A Family‑Centered Creative Team

Between them, Armstrong and Fuller are raising eleven children, all homeschooled and often traveling with the duo. Their lives embody the message that creativity, family, and performance can thrive together. They tour as mothers, makers, and musicians — women who play loud, redefining what Celtic performance looks like and who gets to lead it.

Meaghan Fuller, percussion

Meaghan Fuller’s musical life reads like rhythm itself — winding, layered, and always moving, beginning with childhood visits to her aunt and uncle’s house in New England, where she would sneak into the basement to play her uncle’s drum kit which  lit a spark that never went out.  Her path to the drum kit took detours, and those detours became the foundation of her sound. Meaghan began playing hand percussion and bodhrán in 2002, eventually adding djembe, dumbek, and cajón. She also explored mandolin, tin whistle, low D whistle, and guitar — a multi‑instrumental background that gives her drumming its distinctive melodic sensibility.

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Dance is woven deeply into her musical identity. Trained in ballet, contemporary, Irish dance, and later belly dance, she performed with bands, taught for years, and founded her own troupe, Celtic Gypsies. Movement, musicality, and rhythm remain at the center of everything she does, shaping the way she approaches percussion: rhythm that moves, grooves that serve the song, and performance that feels alive.

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In 2016, after a car accident left her performing her first gig on crutches with a broken pelvis, she joined THE ROGUES as their bodhrán player and later tenor drummer. What began as another musical adventure turned into more than a decade of performing with the award‑winning Celtic band. She also performed with Whiskey Wagon on bodhrán, mandolin, and whistles, and in 2025 co‑founded Femme Celtique, a female-fronted bagpipe rock group that blends Celtic tradition with modern fire.  Then came the drum kit — the instrument she had wanted since childhood.

She bought her first kit in 2018, had to sell it a few years later, and missed it deeply. In 2024 she brought a Pearl kit back into her life and went all in, building an entire room dedicated to drums. “Apparently one does not simply ‘dabble’ in drums,” she jokes. In 2026, she stepped onto a stage with a drum kit for the first time, performing live in front of a crowd. And now, she says, she’s just getting started.  Her influences span rock, punk, Celtic rock, folk, alternative, and anything with a great groove. The drum kit may be the newest chapter of her musical life, but rhythm has been there the whole time.

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Between performances, Meaghan is a professional artist and costumer, running her business Strike Daekins since 2006. She is also a full‑time caretaker of her family’s hobby farm in Virginia and a proud mother of three daughters. Her life blends creativity, movement, motherhood, and music — a rhythm all its own.