US Music Announces Winter NAMM Party
featuring Nuno Bettencourt’s DramaGods and Disturbed.

Chicago, IL – January 13, 2006.  U.S. Music Corporation will hold a private party featuring DramaGods and Disturbed in celebration of this winter’s NAMM show. The party will be held at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Friday, January 20th. DramaGods front man - Nuno Bettencourt is a long time Washburn endorser. Nuno recently premiered his N5 and N6 signature series guitars at the 2005 winter NAMM show in Anaheim. Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan will be performing with his signature series Washburn MAYA guitar and his new signature “1086” Randall MTS series module.

A limited number of passes for the event can be obtained at US Music Corporation’s Booth (5244 Hall B), and at the shows sponsor’s booths which include: Best-tronics (1835, Hall E), Pearl Corporation (2430, 2530, Hall D), Dean Markley Strings (5466 Hall B), Tone Pros (1526 Hall E), and Digitech (Room 205A).

“We expect this to be the premier evening during NAMM and are honored to have both Disturbed and DramaGods share the stage for the NAMM celebration” commented Kevin Lello, Director of Marketing for U.S. Music Corporation.

In addition to the party at the House of Blues, US Music will have the following artists signing at their booth:  Nuno Bettencourt 1-2pm; George Lynch 2-3pm, and Ty Tabor on Friday, January 20th.  Dan Donegan of Disturbed, Jon Donais of Shadows Fall, Nick Catanese of Black Label Society and Scott Ian of Anthrax will be signing together 1-2pm, Saturday January 21st.
 
US Music Corporation located just north of Chicago. US Music is a uniquely positioned, fully integrated musical instrument company that manufactures and markets instruments, accessories and audio equipment for professionals, aspiring professionals, collectors, hobbyists and beginner musicians.  US Music Corp owns of Washburn Guitars, Parker Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Eden Amplifiers, SoundTech Professional Audio, Oscar Schmidt, Lyon Musical Instruments and Mojo Strings.

For more information, go to www.washburn.com

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