by Ty Parker | Jun 26, 2016 | Golden Members, USARD Members & Registered Users
Thank you Chris French for being a life member of the United States Association of Rudimental Drummers! From Chris’s website: Chris French grew up in the Dallas, TX area playing drums for the award winning Lake Highlands High School Marching Band and played drum... 
by Ty Parker | Sep 24, 2015 | USARD Members & Registered Users
Biography Scott Mitchell has been drumming for over 30 years, starting with the Sudbury Ancient Fife & Drum Company and playing with a variety of historical reenactment groups throughout the bicentennial. In 1981 Scott began playing with a loose organization... 
by Ty Parker | Feb 26, 2015 | USARD Members & Registered Users
Pavel Stepanovwas born in 1988 April 2 in the city of Kandalaksha in the North of Russia. He graduated from music school in piano, and studied at the tuba and guitar. 2005: At the age of 17 he enrolled in the College of music in classical percussion instruments. 2008:... by Ty Parker | Nov 3, 2014 | USARD Members & Registered Users
Biography of Frank Zappone Frank Zappone started his interest in drumming back in 1964. Born and raised in Torrington, Connecticut, he came from a family that had many musical interests stemming from piano, organ, accordion, concertina and alto saxophone. It was his... by Ty Parker | Oct 23, 2014 | USARD Members & Registered Users
I started drumming in 1952 with St Anthony's of Allston, MA. Drum instructor was Walt Whitney, who came from CT, so I learned how to tuck skin heads and a lot of drum solos like CT half time and Downfall of Paris. From there I went to the Holy Trinity Cadets in... by Ty Parker | Oct 9, 2014 | USARD Members & Registered Users
BIOGRAPHY – Willard J. “Bill” Putnam OVERVIEW I was a child prodigy in Percussion from age 3, a classically-trained Eastman School of Music percussionist – born and raised in Rochester, New York – who grew up with performance and instruction in Drum Corps in...