Band From TV Fea­tures Actors Greg Grun­berg, James Den­ton, Jesse Spencer, Bob Guiney, Adrian Pas­dar, Scott Grimes and Other Sur­prise Guests

Carls­bad, CA, November 29, 2011—Continuing its tra­di­tion of attract­ing the most pas­sion­ate and tal­ented music mak­ers from all walks of life, the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Music Mer­chants (NAMM) today announced that Band From TV will make a spe­cial appear­ance at the NAMM Show by host­ing and per­form­ing at the annual music prod­ucts indus­try trade show’s Celebrity Jam, which will be held on Sat­ur­day, Jan. 21, 2012 from 5:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Ana­heim Con­ven­tion Center’s main lobby stage.

Open to reg­is­tered atten­dees of the NAMM Show and their invited guests, the live per­for­mance will hap­pen dur­ing the cel­e­bra­tion of the110th anniver­sary of the NAMM Show, which his­tor­i­cally attracts top musi­cal tal­ent for four days of per­for­mances, celebrity auto­graph ses­sions and instru­ment demos while thou­sands of music prod­uct man­u­fac­tur­ers and retail­ers gather to dis­play and pur­chase musi­cal instru­ments that inevitably end up in retail stores.

“We are hon­ored to once again be asked by the fine folks at NAMM to per­form some of our favorite cov­ers for all of the amaz­ing peo­ple that love mak­ing music just like we do,” says Greg Grun­berg. “We have been lucky enough to have played for thou­sands of peo­ple over the years and raised mil­lions of dol­lars for our charities…BUT play­ing the NAMM Show is both a thrill and the most intim­i­dat­ing show of the year for us.  Hav­ing said that, it is also the show where we get the most sup­port and love from the audi­ence. It’s a great event cel­e­brat­ing every­thing music can do to make the world a bet­ter place.  We use music to help oth­ers, but get SO much love in return.  Thanks NAMM!”

Band From TV mem­bers who will par­tic­i­pate in the con­cert include drum­mer and found­ing mem­ber Greg Grun­berg of NBC’s Heroes and Alias and also the cre­ator of TalkAboutIt.org; Jesse Spencer (vio­lin), who is cur­rently star­ring on Fox’s House; James Den­ton (gui­tar) from Des­per­ate House­wives; Bob Guiney (vocals), who appeared on The Bach­e­lor and is now the host of HGTV’s Show­house Show­down; Adrian Pas­dar (gui­tar), of Heroes and the new series Ulti­mate Spider-Man; Scott Grimes(keyboard/vocalist) from Amer­i­can Dad, ER, and Robin Hood, Anthony Rui­v­i­var from NBC’s Third Watch and The Adjust­ment Bureau.  Band From TV is all about giv­ing.  All the celebri­ties in the Band have a char­ity that they sup­port with the major­ity of the money raised from gigs and the band’s CD & DVD being donated back to help the char­i­ties in their endeav­ors. Addi­tional guest actors and other per­son­al­i­ties will also be invited to jam with the band.

The NAMM Show is a mar­quee event in music and the most watched event all year for music news, celebrity per­for­mances and new musi­cal instru­ment and related prod­uct and tech­nol­ogy show­cases. Each year, more high-profile celebri­ties sign on to sup­port NAMM’s musi­cal mes­sages by agree­ing to per­form, par­tic­i­pate in gen­eral ses­sions and record pub­lic ser­vice announce­ments for the association’s national Wanna Play? pub­lic aware­ness cam­paign pro­mot­ing the plea­sures and ben­e­fits of mak­ing music for peo­ple of all ages. This past Jan­u­ary, NAMM wel­comed many notable artists who sup­port recre­ational music mak­ing, includ­ing Kara Dio­Guardi, who was awarded the pres­ti­gious NAMM “Music for Life” Award, Natasha Bed­ing­field and others.

The invitation-only music trade show is plan­ning to wel­come more than 1,400 music exhibitors from 90 coun­tries to the show, which runs Thurs­day, Jan. 19 to Sun­day, Jan. 22. On Wednes­day, Jan. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the media is invited to NAMM’s Media Pre­view Day for a first look at the Apps. & Gam­ing Pavil­ion and twenty of the NAMM Show’s most inno­v­a­tive and buzz-worthy music instru­ments and products.

For live, up-to-the-minute events dur­ing the 2012 NAMM Show, visit namm.org or fol­low www.twitter.com/nammshow or Likewww.facebook.com/nammshow

About Band From TV
Band From TV was cre­ated to pro­vide fund­ing and resources for sev­eral incred­i­bly worth­while char­i­ties around the world. When it comes to celebrity char­ity involve­ment, there is true power in num­bers. Com­ing together, they formed a celebrity rock band on a mis­sion to make a dif­fer­ence in advanc­ing and sup­port­ing the char­i­ties in which they are pas­sion­ate. The Band From TV lineup includes a pow­er­house of well-known and acclaimed actors includ­ing: Greg Grun­berg, James Den­ton, Bob Guiney, Jesse Spencer, Adrian Pas­dar,  Scott Grimes, Anthony Rui­v­i­var and accom­plished musi­cians Chris Kel­ley (Music Direc­tor), Barry Sarna (Eagles), David Leach (Ben Harper), Chris Mostert (Eagles), as well as child-star turned bass player Brad Sav­age. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.bandfromtv.org.
About NAMM
The National Asso­ci­a­tion of Music Mer­chants, com­monly called NAMM in ref­er­ence to the organization’s pop­u­lar NAMM trade shows, is the not-for-profit asso­ci­a­tion that uni­fies, leads and strength­ens the $17 bil­lion global musi­cal instru­ments and prod­ucts indus­try. NAMM’s activ­i­ties and pro­grams are designed to pro­mote music mak­ing to peo­ple of all ages. NAMM is com­prised of more than 9,000 Mem­ber com­pa­nies. For more infor­ma­tion about NAMM, inter­ested par­ties can visit www.namm.org or call 800–767-NAMM (6266).

NAMM wel­comes media cov­er­age for the Celebrity Jam but the show is not open to the pub­lic. To request media cre­den­tials or for high-resolution art­work before and after the per­for­mance as well as inter­view requests, please contact:

Jeanne O’Keefe /Alex Lip­pin / The Lip­pin Group / 323–965-1990
JOKeefe@LippinGroup.com / ALippin@LippinGroup.com

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