Staff
Bradley Vincent Palmer is co-founder of DoubleStop Percussion, a Birmingham, Alabama-based company providing percussion instruction for all levels of experience in schools across the southeast. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Arts from Middle Tennessee State University. His teachers include Eric Hollenbeck and Lalo Davila. He is an active educator, performer, arranger, adjudicator, and maintains a private instruction studio.
He is an alumnus of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps and Magic of Orlando Drum and Bugle Corps, and is a recipient of the 2000 Drum Corps International World Championship and Individual and Ensemble Percussion Ensemble Championship. He has taught as adjunct professor at Middle Tennessee State University and has instructed the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps front ensemble since 2003. Mr. Palmer has presented clinics and masterclasses in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, and Colorado.
Mr. Palmer resides in Hoover, Alabama with his wife Heather and their daughter Ella. He endorses Innovative Percussion, Inc.
Sean Womack is the co-founder of DoubleStop Percussion,
a Birmingham-based percussion education company providing percussion
instruction for schools throughout the Southeast.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the
University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Music in
Percussion Performance from the University of Georgia.
Mr. Womack is a former member of Magic of Orlando Drum and Bugle Corps
from Orlando Florida and also has performed with the Macon Symphony
Orchestra and the Savannah Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, he is on staff at Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps where he serves as the percussion co-caption head. Mr. Womack also maintains a studio of percussion students from elementary through high school. He is in demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and arranger throughout the United States.
His teachers include Dr. Eric Hollenbeck, Dr. Thomas McCutchen, and Dr. Arvin Scott. Mr. Womack is a member of Percussive Arts Society, MENC, and the Alabama Music Educators Association and is an endorser for Innovative Percussion, Pearl Drums, and Adams Musical Instruments.
He is married to Sara, an elementary school music teacher, and is a father to two boys, Will and Mason.
Jami Fennell is originally from Walterboro, South Carolina.
He attended Western Carolina University where he studied percussion
with Dr. Mario Gaetano. While attending WCU he performed in the
percussion, jazz, wind and gamelan ensembles. He was also a member
of the Pride of the Mountains Marching band where he served as the
section leader and was Most Outstanding Performer for the 2001 season.
Jami was also a member of the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps from 1999-2001, and in 2001 he was named Most Outstanding Performer. Jami also attended Jacksonville State University where he studied with Clint Gillespie and Tracy Tyler. While attending JSU he was a member of the Marching Southerners and the JSU PASIC line, and was the 2003 Most Outstanding Performer. Jami holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from JSU.
He has also taught several highly respected drum lines throughout the South including: Spirit of JSU, Jacksonville State University, Kennesaw Mountain High School and Lassiter High School.
Jami currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama and is the newest member of the DoubleStop Percussion team.