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PAUL JAMES BANNERMAN
World Touring Drummer with Cirque Du Soleil
Showband Drummer with Princess Cruises
Studio / Touring Musician (Recorded on 19 CDs)
Toured / Traveled to 157 Countries on 7 Continents
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Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, and educated at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, I am a multilingual professional drummer and touring musician with extensive global experience in live performance, musical theatre, and large-scale productions. My career is defined by exceptional consistency and scale, notably completing a 16-year world tour with Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai. I performed in all 5,219 shows, playing to over 12 million spectators across 245 cities and 24 countries. Following the conclusion of Varekai, I transitioned into the cruise entertainment industry where I served as the Assistant Music Manager and Houseband Drummer for Princess Cruises. Across 25 contracts onboard 15 ships, I have performed over 2,200 shows. This includes 22 large-scale production shows and backing more than 240 premier guest entertainers, featuring West End and Broadway stars alongside finalists from The Voice, X Factor, America’s Got Talent, American Idol, and Britain’s Got Talent. To date, my career spans 49 musical theatre productions, 19 commercial CD recordings, and travel to 3,600 cities in 157 countries across all seven continents. Currently splitting my time between Halifax (Canada) and Las Vegas (USA), I am passionate about travel, photography, drone videography, and linguistics. Moving forward, my primary objective is to bring my extensive arena-level experience to an international touring recording artist or band.
ALBUMS RECORDED
YEAR ARTIST CD TITLE INSTRUMENT
2010 5 Minutes To Clowns Live in Barcelona Drum Set
2008 VRP Live in Berlin Drum Set
2002 Cirque du Soleil 'Varekai' (DVD & Live CD) Drum Set / Percussion
2000 Electric Culture 'Electric Culture' Drum Set / Percussion
2000 Royal Regiment of Canada 'Quebec Military Music Festival' Snare Drum
1999 Musical Reflections 'Heart & Soul' Drum Set / Percussion
1998 O.P.P. Pipes & Drums 'Nova Scotia Tattoo' Snare Drum
1997 Royal Regiment of Canada 'Footsteps in Time' Cymbals
1997 Mississauga Big Band 'Smile . . . It's Christmas' Drum Set / Percussion
1996 Victor Crowl 'The Healing' Drum Set / Percussion
1996 The McAuley Boys 'In Another Lifetime' Drum Set
1996 Dreamcatcher 'Dreamcatcher' Drum Set / Percussion
1995 Sweetblood & the Hounds 'Unmuzzled' Drum Set
1995 Christine Laforest 'Christine Laforest' Drum Set
1995 Monaliza Mendoza 'Monaliza' Drum Set / Percussion
1995 Governor-General's Horse Guards 'Tradition' Snare Drum
1995 Victor Crowl 'The Healing' Drum Programming
1994 Justin Gray 'Life, Change, Experience' Percussion
