Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Will Kick Off the Consumer Bankers Association's Home Equity Lending Conference

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Will Kick Off the Consumer Bankers Association's Home Equity Lending Conference

A Donation Will Be Made to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

LANGHORNE, Pa., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Because of the devastating hurricane in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama, the Consumer Bankers Association's Home Equity Lending Conference was moved from its original location in New Orleans to Phoenix, Arizona. In lieu of hosting a charity auction, Group9, the company underwriting the opening event of the Home Equity Committee of the Consumers Bankers Association, has asked all participants to make a significant contribution to the Red Cross. In addition, CBA will contribute $100 for each conference registration to the Red Cross, as well as accept donations on-site.

The opening event and concert will take place on Sunday, September 18th, at the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, 5350 East Marriott Drive in Phoenix, Arizona, at 7:00 p.m. The conference is scheduled from Sunday, September 18, to Wednesday, September 21.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will still be the featured band performing at the opening event of the 2005 Home Equity Lending Conference. Since their emergence onto the music scene in 1992 in Southern California's swing scene, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has become one of the most innovative bands in the U.S. With their popular hit, "You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three Tonight (Baby)," the band revived the sounds of the '40s and '50s, borrowing some of the Rat Pack lingo in addition to zoot suits. In 1997, the band released two albums - "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" and "Whatchu' Want for Christmas" - which led to a major label contract with Capitol Records. By the time the band came together for a follow-up, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy had sold over three million albums, performed at Super Bowl XXXIII with Stevie Wonder and Gloria Estefan and had their music used in over 60 film and TV trailers. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was unstoppable. Their fifth album, "Save My Soul," was released in July 2003, five years after their Interscope debut.

About the Home Equity Lending Conference

The Home Equity Lending Conference will take place from September 18-21 at the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, 5350 East Marriott Drive, Phoenix, Arizona, 85054. The conference will provide Home Equity professionals with strategic insight and practical solutions to pressing issues such as integration of market segments, partnerships and alliances, value-added uses of technology, and creating customer value.

Attendance is open to CBA corporate, holding company affiliates, national associates or home equity associate members. To register, visit CBA's website -- http://www.cbanet.org/. To make reservations at the Marriott, call (800) 835-6206.

About Group9

Group9 is an innovative, growing company that has found a niche in the real estate lending industry by creating products and services that streamline a lender's loan process. The executive team is comprised of industry experts who bring more than fifty years of industry knowledge to bear in the dynamic, fast-paced lending industry. Since Group9's inception in 2000, the company's expansion speaks to the demand in the marketplace for services that help lenders meet the demand of the explosive growth of their mortgage and second mortgage businesses. Group9 provides services to a wide range of financial institutions, including some of the nation's largest and elite mortgage lenders. Founded in 2000, by Christopher Ulsh, Christopher Mallon and Theresa Littleton Mallon, Group9 is among Philadelphia's fastest growing, privately held companies. Group9 is headquartered in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, with an office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that houses its loan closing operation.

Source: Group9

CONTACT: Dava Guerin, Guerin Public Relations, Inc., +1-215-914-2040 or +1-215-262-0740 - wireless, for Group9; or Fritz Elmendorf, Consumer Bankers Association, +1-703-276-3879

Web site: http://www.cbanet.org/

NOTE TO EDITORS: Coverage of conference and concert is welcome. Interviews with members of the Consumer Bankers Association, Group9 executives and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy are available upon request.

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