Starting at 11:00am Friday, July 27th, continuing through Saturday until 5.00pm. The top ten Fastest Hands and top ten Fastest Feet will compete in a ‘Finals Battle’ of both categories held Sunday, July 30th.

Included in this year’s event will be technical demonstrations, insight sessions and appearances by WFD Champions and World Record Holders, Matt ‘The Kid’ Smith, Johnny ‘3 Bomb’ Rabb and Mike ‘Machine’ Mallais. Also appearing will be the ever lovely Miss WFD 2007, Christine Johnson.

World Fastest Drummer Organization, along with NAMM International launched a Fastest Drummer retail participation program called The Music Edge Fastest Drummer Program in 2004. The store’s winner can advance to compete for over $12,000 in Grand Prizes.

Boo McAfee, co-founder of Extreme Sport Drumming, about the event:

\"To see these WFD multi World Record Holders go at it, full throttle, smooth as silk with their hands and feet at top speeds for a full 60 second run is simply an amazing work of technical proficiency.

Since the program started we have seen contestants from all over the USA and abroad. We are also extremely please to announce that ‘the greatest’ cymbal company in the world, Zildjian is a partner with WFD 2007.\"

Grand-Prizes for this year’s contest include

Two Pearl Drum-Sets,

Two sets of Zildjian Cymbals,

A year supply of ProMark Drum Sticks (with Winner’s name),

AXIS LongBoard ‘A’ Double Pedal

50 Remo Drum Heads

and even more prices

Contestants should sign in at NAMM Fastest Drummer Contest stage area located at the 4th street lobby stage in The Austin Convention Center starting the morning of Friday, July. 27th.

For more information please visit www.namm.org or www.WorldsFastestDrummer.com, or send an email to info@WorldsFastestDrummer.com

The NAMM International Fastest Drummer Contest is sponsored by The Music Edge.com, NAMM’s new teen promotional initiative and is open to anyone attending this year’s NAMM Summer Session. Please Note: NAMM is a ‘Trade Only’ Convention and is not open to the General Public.