as every year at our festival, we are going to raffle some great prizes again this year; three cymbal packages and three percussion packages will be given away amongst every attendee who has either bought a 1-day, or 2-day ticket. the prize draw will take place live on stage on sunday june 24th, at 18:15h at the 2012 meinl drum festival.


here is what you can win:

1. prize cymbals:
mb20 series 22" heavy bell ride / chris adler artist series cymbal bag / 6" meinl practice pad / meinl cymbal polish

2. prize cymbals:
byzance series 20" raw bell ride / designer jawbreaker cymbal bag / 6" meinl practice pad / meinl cymbal cleaner

3. prize cymbals:
classics custom series 20" medium ride / classics custom series 16" trash crash / standard cymbal bag / 6" meinl practice pad

1. prize percussion
makah-burl string cajon / standard cajon bag

2. prize percussion
10" drummer snare timbale with bag

3. prize percussion
headliner hihat tambourines and a headliner series cowbell with bag


two-day tickets for both festival days are almost sold out. hurry up and make sure you have yours in case you plan to attend.

one-day tickets for sunday june 24th are available without quantitiy limit. you can either buy those in advanced sale on meinldrumfestival.com, or at the box office at the festival.

looking forward to seeing you here.

- norbert

on april 24 i went to an animals-as-leaders concert in cologne germany and made this interview with their new drummer matt garstka.

thank you all for sending me the questions for matt and have fun with the interview.

- norbert

vor kurzem besuchte uns peter wanitschek, schlagzeuger von tim bendzko. ich nutzte die gelegenheit für ein kurzes interview mit ihm welches wir für euch aufgezeichnet haben. vielen dank für das zusenden der fragen an peter und viel spaß mit dem interview.

- norbert

Recently I had the pleasure of being able to sit down with Meinl Cymbal artist and drummer for the modern prog-metal legends Mastodon, Brann Dailor and hit him up with questions that our friends on Facebook wrote in and asked him. Brann is a great conversationalist, smart, funny and insightful. He's clearly doing what he loves and it really shows.

Normally I would ramble on forever in these blogs, but I think it's best to let Brann do the talking.  :-)

Cheers. - Chris Brewer

i am very delighted to announce that this year, drummers from all over europe will be attending our drum festival here in gutenstetten. tickets have been ordered from these countries so far:

austria
belgium
czech republic
denmark
england
estonia
france
germany
hungary
ireland
italy
netherlands
russia
sweden
switzerland

new tickets are ordered every day and i hope we'll have guests from even more countries by the time the festival starts. let's celebrate a legendary drumming weekend together.

thank you all so much for supporting the international drum community !!

- norbert

on april 24 i will be doing a video interview with matt garstka of animals-as-leaders. if you have any questions to matt or the band, this is your chance. simply comment this blog with the question(s) that you want me to ask him during the interview. please also read the questions that already have been written down by others.

i will ask matt as many questions as possible during the interview and will post the video here only a few a days later.

looking forward to your questions!

- norbert

it's a great pleasure to let you know that our festival will be back in germany this year on june 23 and june 24. it's going to be a mayjor two-day drum event here on our premises in gutenstetten.

on the first day we will host a series of masterclasses to a limited amount of 300 attendees only.

and on the second day we will feature the usual drum performances from some of the best drummers in the world. we've worked out an amazing line-up which you can see on meinldrumfestival.com now.

ticket sale will start on march 01st on meinldrumfestival.com.

and for further info check out meinldrumfestival.com, or "like us" on facebook.com/meinldrumfestival, or simply follow our @meinlcymbals twitter feed #MDF12

i hope to see you all here in june.

- norbert

as every year in january we are introducing our newest cymbal innovations at the winter namm convention in anaheim, california.

if you happen to be there too, stop by our booth 3454 to say hello. the show is from january 19th - 22nd. we're looking forward to seeing you there.

- norbert

i am glad to let you all know that we've come out with 46 news for 2012 :-)
all of them will be introduced at the upcoming winter namm show which starts in just a few days in sunny california.

all new products are online already. if you want to see them all at a glance, go to the products section on meinlcymbals.com and simply click on new 2012 in the tag-cloud. that will make all of them show up collectively on your computer. no more time-consuming search necessary.

and for more details, download our new 2012 cymbal guide PURE METAL - or - grab your own copy at the namm show, or at your local dealer soon.

enjoy !!

- norbert

fresh from the printer's shop comes our new cymbal guide for next year. it shows you all product news (46 this time), and of course the whole cymbals, drumgear and merchandise portfolio too.

besides that, we've been focusing on the fact that next year we will celebrate our 60th meinl cymbals anniversary. we've made a timeline spanning from 1952 until 2012 showing all our series ever made, special events and other company highlights. very interesting content in my opinion.

and last but not least: features on many of our international top artists, a meinl drum festival report from mexico city and tons of more information are included.

pure metal 2012 will be available online on meinlcymbals.com as of january 02, and will be handed out for the first time at the namm show in anaheim, california.

i take this opportunity to thank you all for your outstanding support during the last year. it means the world to us. there is much more to come next year. stay tuned!

- norbert