MAGFest, The Music And Gaming Festival, is proud to announce Nobuo Uematsu and EARTHBOUND PAPAS as guests at the next upcoming MAGFest, January 5-8, 2012, in National Harbor, MD. Nobuo Uematsu is best known for being the primary composer
for the Final Fantasy series of video games. Uematsu’s band, EARTHBOUND PAPAS, will be performing new originals as well as arrangements of Uematsu classics in their second American performance to date. EARTHBOUND PAPAS features a line up of talented musicians, many of which are former members of Uematsu’s previous band, The
Black Mages.

In addition to Nobuo Uematsu and EARTHBOUND PAPAS, MAGFest attendees can expect to see a huge lineup of guests and bands.

Musical performer lineup:
Earthbound Papas, ARMCANNON, Bit Brigade, Descendants of Erdrick, The Megas, Metroid Metal, The OneUps, Random Encounter, Temp Sound Solutions, This Place Is Haunted, X-Hunters and Year 200X.

DJs and chiptune artists will be announced later.

Notable guests include Nobuo Uematsu (Composer, Final Fantasy series), Grant Kirkhope (Composer, Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark and Banjo series), Ellen McLain (Voice of GLaDOS, Portal), John Lowrie (Voice of sniper, Team Fortress 2), Jon St. John (Voice of Duke Nukem), Hey Ash Whatcha Playin? (Web video series), Loading Ready Run (Web video series), Extra Credits (Web video series), Angry Video Game Nerd (Web video series), Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson (Web video creator) and many more listed on the website at http://magfest.org/