Renowned Swiss cymbal maker Paiste has welcomed a lot of distinguished artists to its Artist Endorsement Program, including Australian drummer Craig Monika (Thousand Needles In Red) and Brazilian indepent drummer and clinician Dino Verdade.
New European Paiste artists include Estonian artist Henry Hinno (Shanon), Benjamin Farrugia (Inna Modja) from France, Rustam Ishmuratov (Tishina) from Kazakhstan, Primoz Storman (Tabu) from Slovenia.
Hailing from Spain are Fernando Arias (Oviedo Filarmonia), and independent artist Miguel Angel Lloreda. Also newly endorsing are Michael Blair (Hugh Laurie) from Sweden, Richard Colburn (Belle and Sebastian) and Simon Hartop (Junkstar), both from the United Kingdom.
Paiste also added a bunch of US drummers to its family of endorsing artists, including independent artists Eric Adams, Mike Avenaim, and Kristen Gleeson Prata. Other new Paiste endorsers fom the USA are Alicia Warrington (The Dollyrots), Nick Pierce (Unearth), Mark Slutsky (Hugo), Marty Erspamer (The Dirty Pearls), Braydn Krueger (The Lonely Forest), Ricardo Lagomasino (Many Arms, Joe Lally), Chad Lee (The Silent Comedy), Jermaine Parrish (T-Pain), Tom Seguso (Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes), and Sonny Trembley (Burn Halo).