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Email:
beth.maisonpierre@uncp.edu
Office Phone:
910.521.6381
Department of Music
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6230
Fax: 910.521.6390
Email: music@uncp.edu
Location: Moore Hall
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Mr. Tom Bernett
Tom Bernett has been a professional drummer, vocalist, entertainer, and producer for more than 40 years. During that time he has worked in USO shows, traveled with top-40 show bands, played in dinner theater and regional theater pit orchestras, worked in commercial recording studios, toured with the American Cavalcade of Big Bands, and backed international stars, including: Steve Allen; The Spinners; Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme; The Lettermen: Grammy-winning jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan; jazz vocalists Marlene VerPlanck and Melva Houston; commedian Rodney Dangerfield; and many more.
His current schedule includes leading his own 9-piece, horn-driven variety band, Swing Street, as well as teaching private drum students in his percussion studio at the Sandhills Academy of Music. In addition, due to his extensive past experience in the drum corps activity, he also coaches the drum line of the award-winning Union Pines High School Marching Vikings.
When he is not playing and singing with Swing Street or teaching young drummers, he also plays with the Moonlighters Big Band (Raleigh), the non-profit Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra (Sanford), and numerous free-lance drumming and singing assignments throughout the region.
When time allows, he enjoys golf and cocktailing on the screen porch with his wife, Mary Lou.
Updated: Sunday, January 22, 2012
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