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Drum Sergeant-David Cameron, started playing drums in 1976 in his junior high school band program. Then, at Bradley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, from 1978-82 he held “first chair” in drums all four years he attended. Also, during this time he auditioned for and was inducted into the All-State band program four out of four times.
In 1980, his junior year, he was accepted to the “Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corp” and studied there for a brief time with Tom Float. At the end of his high school career, he won two scholarships in music to Tennessee Tech and there, studied under Joseph Rasmussen.
During his college career, he changed his major to biology, which led him to his present “daytime” career in Medical Technology. Always doing double-duty as a part-time professional musician, he has been a Medical Laboratory Technologist for the past 19 years in Chattanooga.
David began his Scottish drumming pursuits in 2001. He has been totally consumed ever since his discovery of the “Scottish Idiom”. David became Drum Sergeant in May, 2002 and during his brief tenure has built an energetic, talented, and competitive drum line. In an astonishingly short amount of time, he has shaped them into a force to be reckoned with by bands met in regional contests, and has led them to many top place finishes, to their credit. Along with P/M Spaulding he is responsible for the all of the band’s music. |
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Russ Spaulding, a retired career educator, is the owner of Bagpipes Unlimited. He is involved in music publishing and teaching and has mentored countless pipers around the region over the years. He has been the Pipe Major of the City Of Chattanooga Pipe Band - Chattanooga, Tennessee (Grade-IV), since it was formed in October, 1999. A highly talented composer of bagpipe music, the band frequently plays his tunes in their competition sets.
Previous to beginning the Chattanooga band, Russ was a long-time member of the Grade-III Atlanta Pipe Band of Atlanta, Georgia USA. He has played with the band throughout the United States and Canada, including when the band won the 1994 US Open Pipe Band Championship for Grade III in Alma, Michigan.
He is the past Director of the Scottish Heritage Program at Lyon College, Arkansas and served as the Executive Director of the Ozark Scottish Festival held each April at the College. He is a past Pipe Major of the Pipes & Drums of Lyon College, The Caledonian Pipes & Drums of Cincinnati, and the Syrian Temple Scots of Cincinnati (winners of the 1989 Imperial Championship in Toronto, Canada). |
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D/S– David Cameron (left) & P/M Russ Spaulding (right). |
