Welcome to the new official Mickey Hart website where you can find news,
tourdates, and coming soon: rare unreleased recordings from Mickey's personal
vault!
Rhythm Devils DVD Out Now! The Ultimate Concert Experience
A 2 DVD set and 24 page hardcover book featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead), Mike Gordon (Phish), Steve Kimock, Sikiru and Jen Durkin. This DVD was filmed in Chicago during their fall tour in 2006 and it will be available this summer on The Mickey Hart Band Tour and online at various outlets. With original material from Robert Hunter and the band, this experience is unlike any other concert. Sit back, relax and take a 72 minute magic ride through time and space.
Mickey Hart Band Featuring Steve Kimock & George Porter Jr. Confirm Summer Run!
Grateful Dead drummer and percussionist Mickey Hart will launch a 20 city tour this summer including appearances at many of the nations premiere festivals. The outing comes on the heels of the Shout! Factory releases of The Mickey Hart Collection out this spring.
The Mickey Hart Band will feature Steve Kimock on guitar, George Porter Jr on bass, Jen Durkin on vocals, Walfredo Reyes Jr. on drums, and talking drum master Sikiru Adepoju. After headlining appearances at Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa on June 6 and Wakarusa on June 8, the group will head out on an 18 city trek beginning July 3 at the Rothbury Festival and continuing through July 24 at 10K Lakes Festival.
The shows will feature the Robert Hunter penned songs debuted by the Rhythm Devils in 2006 including Fountains of Wood, The Center, and Your House, in addition to Grateful Dead staples such as New Speedway Boogie and Fire on The Mountain.
June 6 - Santa Rosa, CA-Harmony Festival June 8 - Lawrence, KS-Wakarusa Festival July 2 -Newport, KY-Southgate House July 3 - Rothbury, MI-Rothbury Festival July 4 - Garretsville, OH-Nelson Ledges July 5 - Chicago, IL-Lakeview Music Festival July 6 - Milwaukee, WI-Summerfest July 8 - Northampton, MA-Calvin Theater July 9 - Alexandria, VA-Birchmere July 10 - Morristown, NJ-Morristown Community Thr. July 11 - Jim Thorpe, PA-Penn’s Peak July 12 - Patchogue, NY-Great S Bay Music Festival July 15 - NY, NY-Fillmore NYC July 17 - Buffalo, NY-Thursday in the Square July 18 - Binghamton, NY Magic City Music Hall July 19 - Pittsburgh, PA-Palace Theatre July 20 - Baltimore, MD -Ram’s Head Live July 22 - Indianapolis, IN -The Vogue July 23 - Omaha, NE-Slowdown July 24 - Detroit Lakes, MN-10k Lakes Festval
Kyle Hollingsworth to join Mickey Hart Band this tour
Jambase.com Green Apple Fest | 04.20 | USA - Review Click here to read the review.
Mickey Hart Band Appearing At Festivals Across The Country!
Check out The Mickey Hart Band featuring Steve Kimock, George Porter Jr., Jen Durkin, Sikiru
Adepoju, and Walfredo Reyes Jr. at the Langerado Music Festival on March 7, 2008. The group also has planned appearances at
Wakarusa Music Festival on June 8 and plans for a summer tour are
brewin'.
Shout! Factory Releases The Catalog Of Legendary Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart - Click Here To Purchase
Titles Include The Grammy® Award-Winning Planet Drum, Diga Rhythm Band, At The Edge, Supralingua and Mickey Hart's Mystery Box.
Available Now.
Catalog Releases Follow Hart’s Most Recent Release Global Drum Project,
Also available on Shout! Factory.
Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory will be reissuing a series of titles from the catalog of the Grateful Dead’s legendary percussionist Mickey Hart. Planet Drum and Diga Rhythm Band will be available in stores on March 18, and At The Edge, Supralingua, and Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box will be available on April 15. These titles will also be available as digital downloads for the first time.
Over three decades as the innovative percussion engine of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart's ear for global sounds brought numerous unpredictable guests to the Dead's stage performances.
Hart's 1991 release Planet Drum was the natural outgrowth of this adventure, showcasing his gift as a supreme catalyst in convening the world's finest percussion talent for a dazzling collaboration, including Zakir Hussain, who is an international phenomenon in his own right. Planet Drum was recorded in Hart's Sonoma County home studio, with the Dead's legendary crew turning virtually every room in the house into a work zone for each musician. The album won the first-ever Grammy® for Best World Music Album, spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard World Music chart, and remains a favorite to this day.
Diga Rhythm Band, one of the first world music recordings, is a crystalline celebration of drumming and percussion featuring Hart, Hussain, nine other rhythmatists, and Jerry Garcia on two tracks. At The Edge, an exploration of the music of primeval man, is a serene soundscape of tuned percussion, ambient natural sounds, and guitar treatments by Jerry Garcia. The album is the companion to Hart’s acclaimed book debut, Drumming at the Edge of Magic (Harper San Francisco 1990). Mickey Hart's Mystery Box is an effervescent, pop-inflected album, full of breezy songs with layered vocals by England's Mint Juleps - and a vocal debut by Mickey Hart. On Supralingua Hart continued to push the "tribal space" boundaries of percussion and sound, beyond his Grammy®-winning Planet Drum, with some of the same stellar guest personnel.
The release of these titles come on the heels of Global Drum Project, a collaboration from Mickey Hart and Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, consisting of tranced-out grooves, elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion. Released earlier this year on Shout! Factory, the album garnered rave reviews. The Washington Post called the album “subtle and complex yet primal as a heartbeat," and NPR’s Fresh Air declared the project "smart, honorable and admirable."
www.shoutfactory.comMickey Hart At Kripalu Institute This Summer!
Join Mickey at The Kripalu Institute this summer on July 13 in Stockbridge, MA. Check out www.kripalu.org for all the details of this
amazing experience.
New Rhythm Devils DVD Due This Summer!
Star City Productions will release the debut DVD by The Rhythm Devils
this summer. The DVD is a stunning visual piece of art which features
the newly penned Robert Hunter songs The Center, Fountains of Wood, Your
House and many more. Stay tuned for pre-sale details.
Global Drum Project
Mickey Hart's three decades as the innovative percussion engine of the Grateful Dead, earned him Rock & Roll Hall of Fame status and worldwide notoriety. Years of constant touring also afforded him a platform for introducing his lifelong interest in multicultural sounds (rooted in childhood exposure to his mother's collection of early Folkways ethnographic recordings) to the American public; he presented on the Dead's performance stage such diverse artists as the great Yoruban drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, Brazil's multi-talented Airto Moreira, Sudanese oud master Hamza El Din, and Nigerian talking drum ace Sikiru Adepoju.
Hart's longtime friend and collaborator Zakir Hussain is one of the world's giants of Indian classical music, a virtuoso percussionist globally acknowledged as the master of his art. Son of the fabled Ustad Allah Rakha, he made his debut with Ravi Shankar in 1970, and has recorded with George Harrison, Tito Puente, Van Morrison, Pharoah Saunders and many more - and co-founded fusion supergroup Shakti with guitarist John McLaughlin. His prolific career is studded with awards and honors, including being the youngest musician ever to be awarded the title of Padma Shri by the government of India.
The groundbreaking 1991 Planet Drum united Hart, Hussain, Olatunji, Adepoju, Moreira, Puerto Rican master conguero Giovanni Hidalgo and others in a sparkling fusion of global percussion, winning the first-ever Grammy for World Music - and soaring to #1 on Billboard's world music chart, where it stayed for an unprecedented 26 weeks.
Global Drum Project once again finds the all-stars collaborating, in a collection of tranced-out, mesmerizing grooves and elegant electronic programming. Performers include Planet Drum alumni Giovanni Hidalgo on Latin percussion and Sikiru Adepoju on talking drum, as well as Taufiq Qureshi on percussion and vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi. The late Babatunde Olatunji is heard as well, in sampled "guest" vocals.
Coinciding with this release, previously unavailable digital reissues of essential Mickey Hart back-catalog -- Diga Rhythm Band, At The Edge, Planet Drum, Mystery Box, and Supralingua -- will become available via the iTunes Music Store, with physical re-issues planned for 2008.
