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DOUGLAS
CARDWELL
Douglas Cardwell employs his passion and experience to inform a unique curriculum for students and instructors at Douglas Cardwell Percussion Studio. Much like language, drumming is a method of communication. The language of drumming can be heard, felt and spoken.
CAL HAINES
Cal Haines has been playing drums professionally for more than fifty years. In his early years, he studied drums in Cleveland with Charlie Wilcoxin, played in the Army Band in Augusta, Georgia, and in a USO show based in Atlanta. He attended Memphis State University on a music scholarship. While in Memphis, he performed with Diahann Carroll, Rich Little, Bob Hope, Charlie Rich, Ernie Bernhart, Ray McKinley and the Modernaires, Al Greene, Danny Thomas and the St Jude’s Telethon, Clark Terry, Marvin Stamm, and Yul Brenner in the “King and I.” He performed at Nashville’s Opryland theme park for one year. In the ’80s, Cal moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he performed with Emily Remler, Bobby Shew (and still performs with), Dee Kelly, Richie Cole, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, Real Time Quartet, and the Santa Fe Symphony. Cal then moved to California and played with Llew Mathews, Teddy Edwards, Max Bennett, and Jim Gordon. Cal came full-circle to Santa Fe in 2007. Between 2010-2015, he co-produced and performed in 80-plus jazz concerts. For the last 12 years, Cal has been a percussion mentor for Performance Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Symphony working in the Santa Fe Public Schools.
