GI Jams(TM) Musical Military Artists 'Joe Speed Band' Returning from Active Duty in Iraq Will Be Honored in Scottsdale, AZ Homecoming Celebration on April 10

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Joe Speed Band, the #1 most played and downloaded artist on GIJams.com, will be honored at the "Joe Speed Band Homecoming Celebration" in Downtown Scottsdale, Arizona on Saturday, April 10 at 2PM. Joe Speed Band members Jeremiah Eaton, Nathan Harvey and Dusty Scott, three friends and fellow musicians who just served their second deployment in Iraq, have recently returned home and GI Jams™, in collaboration with the Arizona Barbeque Festival (ABF), have announced the event which will feature a live performance by the band. GI Jams™ is in part sponsored by Alliance Beverage Distributing Company of Arizona who helped make this event possible.

Hit songwriter/artist/producers Denny Randell and Biddy Schippers, who will be performing as Randell & Schippers at the April 10 event as well, are the creators and co-directors of GI Jams™. The multi-media entertainment project and its web site GIJams.com debuted in November 2009 and is dedicated to featuring and promoting the musical talents of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces. The Joe Speed Band members, then part of the Wyoming National Guardsmen and stationed in Iraq, were among the many military artists who signed up to the site and posted their music.

They recorded their song "Cowboy Soldiers (Please Send Me A Beer)" on Christmas Eve in their tent on the Iraqi Desert so they could join GI Jams™ and have a song to post on the site. It immediately caught not only Randell & Schippers' collective ear, but also captured the hearts of many other GI Jams™ members, artists and supporters, who together made it the site's most popular song.

Now these soldiers have just returned to the U.S. from their active duty deployment and, thanks to the opportunity, support and public recognition they have achieved since signing onto GIJams.com, will be giving a musical performance at ABF which the band has called "a dream come true."

Randell & Schippers said, "For us to be able to do this for these American heroes is the greatest thrill we can imagine and is why we created GI Jams™. We are grateful and excited to say the site is growing quickly and we hope and believe it will be a major force to support many more military musical artists as well and give them an opportunity to achieve success and financial gain from their music and maybe even go all the way."

Rick Philips, Owner of the Arizona Barbecue Festival added, "When the opportunity to work with GI Jams was brought to us, we knew it would be a perfect fit for the festival. We are proud and honored to support our troops in any way we can, and the fact that we have some of our soldiers performing at our festival is just sweet music to our ears."

Randell & Schippers are successful writers, artists and music entrepreneurs. Their recent dance and video hit "Alice In Wonderland" reached the Top 10 on the Yahoo Video Charts and "Let's Dance The Night Away" is currently on the national dance charts.

Randell is a legendary songwriter whose songs have contributed to the sales of more than 200 million records. His repertoire is distinguished by diverse musical styles and some of the most recorded and performed songs in the world. One of his classics, "Working My Way Back To You," recently exceeded 6 million performances in the U.S. alone – an honor shared by only a handful of copyrights.

To join GI Jams™ and for more information go to www.GIJams.com

SOURCE GI Jams