Kamala Parks

Kamala Lyn Parks is an American drummer, songwriter, tour booker, and author from Berkeley, California.

She played drums for Kamala & The Karnivores (with Ivy DuBois of Sweet Baby, Lynda Skulpone, and Michelle Cruz Gonzales of Bitch Fight and Spitboy), Cringer, The Gr’ups, Naked Aggression, Hers Never Existed, and Plot 66.

[1][2] In 1986, Victor Hayden and Kamala partnered with Maximumrocknroll to establish 924 Gilman Street, an all-ages collectively organized music venue in Berkeley.

[3][4] For years, she booked shows at Gilman, while also cultivating a national tour network for punk bands such as Operation Ivy, Neurosis, the Offspring, and Citizen Fish.

She currently works as a transportation planner for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District and is married to musician Frank Piegaro Jr.