Team Building Specialist,
Composer & Recording Artist
Recordings
Cameron Tummel has recorded with Arthur Hull, Margie Heart, Noah Churchill and Quarkspace, and is the featured percussionist on Jerry and the Silly Monsters' album, "Ho' Down!"
In 2007 Tummel self-produced an instructional, play-along CD, "Fundamental Djembe."
Cameron has just released his first all-original CD of instrumental world percussion, "Waterfire."
Cameron has performed with Babatunde Olatunji, Abdoulaye Diakite, and Small Village, is a published author, builds many of his own drums, and performs annually as a clinician throughout his European tour and at the Seattle World Rhythm Festival.
Cameron's love of rhythmical music is obvious in his enthusiastic presentations. His expertise with children, adults and community-oriented groups creates fun and inspiring experiences for people of all ages. In any situation, and with any population, Cameron delights in bringing people together to celebrate the richness of our communities, and to create unity through music.
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Bio
Cameron Tummel began studying hand drumming and hand percussion in 1990 with teachers Babatunde Olatunji, Arthur Hull and Don Davidson. He continued to study with dozens of drum teachers from Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, the Congo, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, and the United States. To date, his studies have included nineteen years of academic and musical focus on the rhythms and cultures of West Africa.
Tummel's drum skills were honed during his nine-year apprenticeship with master djembe player Abdoulaye Diakite. Cameron has taken three drum sabbaticals to Senegal, West Africa, to study the rhythms and culture of the Bamana ethnic group, and directed and performed with the Baobob West African Drum Ensemble in Santa Barbara for several years. Cameron is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation to provide musical instruction and diversity training for hundreds of local students, and to facilitate professional development clinics for teachers and instructional assistants.
When in residence at his home in Santa Barbara, California, Cameron teaches drum classes on Sunday afternoons. He also enjoys hiking, writing, composing, and surfing whenever possible.
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Facilitator
Cameron Tummel's facilitation training included a thirteen-year apprenticeship with master facilitator Arthur Hull, and a decade of employment by Arthur's company, Village Music Circles. Cameron is one of only two facilitators who ever worked as Arthur Hull's associates at Village Music Circles, and were the only facilitators that VMC entrusted with providing events for their most significant corporate clients. Tummel is featured in Village Music's video, "Drum Circle Facilitation," which showcased the many years he was an integral part of VMC's Hawaii Facilitators Playshop and other facilitator training sessions.
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"Cameron Tummel is the best representation of what a drum circle facilitator should be: fully trained, community committed, well rounded, and globally experienced. "
Sincerely, Arthur Hull
Author of Drum Circle Spirit and Drum Circle Facilitation, Creator/Producer of instructional DVD Drum Circle Facilitation, "The Father of Modern Drum Circles."
© Cameron Tummel