RHYTHM DEVILS ARE ON TOUR NOW Rhythm Devils have announced dates with a lineup that includes Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann (assorted percussion), Sikiru Adepoju (talking drum), Tim Bluhm of the Mother Hips (guitar, vocals), Davy Knowles (guitar, vocals), and Andy Hess (bass). Together, they will make music beyond the horizon to a universe where rhythm is in constant flux and sound has infinite potential. Full tour itinerary is at www.rhythmdevils.net. Set lists will be posted regularly at www.rhythmdevils.net.
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In partnership with the United Nations Foundation's Help the UN Help Haiti fund, Habitat for Humanity and Dave Matthews BAMA Works Haitian relief effort, Music for Relief is working to support the medium and long term challenges of reconstruction, including delivery of food, water, and medical care, provision of jobs to rebuild the country and long-term sustainable housing solutions for the people affected by this catatrophic natural disaster. CLICK HERE for more info and to download the Music For Relief Compilation.
RHYTHMS OF THE UNIVERSE The universe may be 14 billion years old, but it has still got rhythm. Mickey Hart, percussionist for the band Grateful Dead and a Grammy Award winner, is capturing the beat in Rhythms of the universe [read more from the CERN Courier]
MICKEY ON SLASHDOT Mickey has been featured at SlashDot for his contribution at the "Cosmology At the Beach" conference earlier this month.
GRATEFUL DEAD PERCUSSIONIST MICKEY HART AND NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PHYSICIST GEORGE F. SMOOT DEBUT HART’S “RHYTHMS OF THE UNIVERSE” PROJECT IN MEXICO Grateful Dead percussionist and Grammy Award winner Mickey Hart will bring his “Rhythms Of The Universe” presentation to Nobel Prize winning physicist George F. Smoot’s upcoming conference, which is hosted by the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics and Instituto Avanzado de Cosmologia. The conference, entitled “CONGRESO COSMOLOGIA EN LA PLAYA, Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation,” takes place in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, from January 11th through 15th, 2010, and draws cosmologists and astrophysicists from around the world.
Have you ever wondered what the planets, the stars and the universe might sound like? While working individually on very different careers, Mickey Hart and George Smoot have been wondering the same question for years. Their mutual curiosity eventually brought them together in exploring this fascinating question.
Hart has written four books; two of them (“Drumming at the Edge of Magic” and “Planet Drum”) introduce the subject of the primal rhythmic experience of the “Big Bang.” Dr. Smoot, a fan of the Grateful Dead, discovered the essence of the “Big Bang,” the beginning of time and space. Now, the two have come together, along with Meyer Sound Labs, to tell this amazing story using the latest techniques in sound.
Mickey would like to thank Elizabeth Cohen, Ph.D and Cohen Acoustical for their contributions to this project.
MICKEY ON BRAVO CHANNEL'S INNOVATORS IN MUSIC
Toronto's Original Spin Media announce Innovators In Music, a new series of documentary profiles on six dynamic musicians from a variety of genres, backgrounds, and disciplines. Each half-hour episode explores how the artistic impulse extends beyond music-making into other realms of creative pursuit.
Innovators grants you exclusive access to Mickey Hart's creative world - his recording studio, remarkable musical instrument collection, his paintings and more.
Innovators In Music: Mickey Hart airs Jan 21 at 8:00est / 5:00pst on Bravo! Canada
Winners and Losers in the Year 2009 | Thisday Online
The quartet which comprises Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Giovanni Hidalgo and Sikiru Adepoju also won the Grammy for Best World Music Album, the first ever awarded in this category, capping their mastery of the talking drum and a desire ...
Thisday Online
In Vegas, the best attractions are free
By: Robin Tierney
Special to The Examiner
November 29, 2009
Fireballs blaze through the violet sky, lighting faces in the shadows. Glittering sea-green mists cool the air as a primal drumbeat quickens the heart.
Viva Las Vegas!
So what if the Mirage's exploding volcano is an illusion? For sheer spectacle, there's no place like Vegas. The best thrills flare outside the casinos. And sin-free sightseeing along the Strip's three-mile core is free.
Last December, the South Seas-themed casino's extravaganza erupted anew with a $25 million redesign by Grateful Dead drummer/ethnomusicologist Mickey Hart, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain and "multisensory experience" wizards at WET Design. Hidden beneath a three-acre lagoon, 120 "FireShooters" launch Vulcan-worthy flames 60 feet while heat pulses toward walkways and five dozen sound cabinets ricochet rhythms around the mechanical volcanic field.
From Washington Examiner
MICKEY IN INDY FOR PASIC
Mickey will be signing autographs and books at Rhythm! Discovery Center on Friday, November 13 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Hart is in Indianapolis for his induction into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, the society's most prestigious award.
Thousands of Percussionists to Gather in Indy
Indianapolis will host more than 6,000 drummers and percussionists from around the world for the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), which begins today. The four-day event will be held at the Indiana Convention Center and Westin Hotel. PASIC is the world's largest drum and percussion gathering and features more than 130 events on 11 stages.
So You Think You Can Dance
Mickey Hart and Planet Drum's song "Frog Dance" aired on Fox from 8-10p on Tuesday, November 10th
Mickey Hart discussed sounds from space
“The Universe: Pulsars & Quasars”
Aired on THE HISTORY CHANNEL
Tuesday, October 27th @ 09:00 PM
Please check your local listings for repeats
During The Dead’s Spring Tour, Mickey Hart debuted the UNIVERSE OF SOUND. Each night of the Tour Hart connected audiences with the universe's most celestial vibrations from the Big Bang to the rings of Saturn to the Black Hole.
Hart said, “The idea was to take our audience on a nightly tour of some part of our universe during our “space concerto” section. The next day we put it up on our website so the kids could follow it.”
This got the interest of the folks at the History Channel who produce the acclaimed The Universe series.
They came out to Hart’s studio and spent an afternoon doing interviews for the segment being produced on Pulsars and Quasars.
On Wednesday last week I leapt on to my bicycle and raced to Walter Cronkite’s memorial service at the Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. In my purple suede bolero jacket and black trousers I felt like a cross between the Flying Nun and Mary Tyler Moore, but I got there in time!
Twenty-four years ago, as her musician husband lay dying in their Mill Valley home, Evy McPherson made a silent promise to him: That she'd finish the album he would not live long enough to complete.
Mickey Hart and Global Drum Project members perform at the Walter Cronkite Tribute
Lincoln Center September 9, 2009
Hart first performed with Jimmy Buffet and then with Zakir Hussain and Sikiru Adepoju. Hart, Hussain and Adepoju (3/4 of The Global Drum Project) were also joined by Saxophonist Paul Winter.
Hart reminisced about a conversation with Walter . "Walter turned and asked, "When do we know we have the groove?" Mickey replied, "Walter you'll know." A short time later, Cronkite exclaimed, "Mickey, I got it!."
Political and Media VIPs to Honor Cronkite
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
Mickey Hart, Jimmy Buffet, and Wynton Marsalis are among the musicians who are scheduled to perform at the service, which will run about two hours.
Secretary’s Column—Smithsonian magazine for October 2009
Grateful Dead fans may remember the lyrics, “...dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes...” The Dead’s drummer, Mickey Hart, is still thinking about the Cosmos, and he recently contacted Smithsonian under secretary Richard Kurin to arrange a discussion with our distinguished senior scientist Margaret Geller of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, science historian David DeVorkin, and ethnomusicologist Atesh Sonneborn; I also participated in the conversation. Our question: How might Hart perceive and record the “music” of the Universe? Can light waves reaching earth after traveling millions of light years speak to our creative, as well as our scientific, selves? Geller answered yes, but with a prescription for how to translate what we observe into music. She suggested that a musician she knows—a person she says also has superb computer skills—could help Hart convert strings of numbers representing star formation, gamma ray bursts, black hole binaries and other astrophysical phenomena into music. In an email, Hart reacted to his Smithsonian visit: “Exciting... As Soupy Sales would say, ‘My brains are falling out.’ ”.
President to attend memorial for Walter Cronkite
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Mickey Hart, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Feinstein, Jimmy Buffett and the US Marine Corps band are anticipated performers.
Swearing in of Sen. Al Franken MN
Mickey, Al Franken, Bob Weir
Mickey, Sen. Patrick Lahey VT, Bob Weir
Rothbury Day 3: One More Saturday Night with The Dead
Relix
The Dead played its only summer show last night at Michigan's second annual Rothbury festival. The seminal group, who completed its first tour in five years ...
The Dead, Black Crowes Deliver At Rothbury
Billboard
Forget Independence Day. Saturday was the day of The Dead at the Rothbury Festival, which came as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the plethora of ...
ROTHBURY completes 2nd year
White Lake Beacon
If anything brought campers, hippies, music lovers and vagabonds to drive thousands of miles across the country to ROTHBURY this year, it was The Dead. ...
The Dead hit their groove and run with it
Detroit Free Press Sat, 04 Jul 2009
The whole Odeum grounds were covered in a pungent haze, and the surviving members of the original Grateful Dead -- Phil Lesh (bass), Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann (both on drums) -- were joined on stage by Warren Haynes (guitar) and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards). Billed as the Dead, the group was closing out the Saturday main stage performances at Rothbury.
Swara Samrat Maestro Ali Akbar Khan
April 14, 1922 – June 18, 2009
Our most beloved Khansahib passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family on Thursday evening. Khansahib had been a dialysis patient since 2004, and had been enduring numerous health issues ever since. The great Maestro had continued his music teachings publically at the Ali Akbar College until just weeks ago, and continued to teach music at home until the day he died.
To pay tribute please go HERE
Dead 2009 Downloads
From Greensboro to the Gorge, you can download every show from The Dead's 2009 tour! Setlists will be posted shortly after each show's end, and downloads will be available as soon as possible - usually within 24 hours.
The Dead Tour 2009 - All Access
Features include streaming audio from all the shows, video and photo blogs from rehearsals, backstage and concert footage, an interactive Photomosaic of The Dead 2009 tour logo made up of over 500 photographs of the band, news feed with live updates, set lists within seconds of a song being played from each concert, and an MP3 download consisting of two hours of live music from the tour.
"The Dead Tour 2009" is available for $19.99 from Apple's App store
Celebrating the rhythmic power of the planets and the stars, The Dead brings "Touring the Universe of Sound" to the web! You can check out the preview info and images, and after each show of The Dead's '09 Spring Tour, sound clips will be added to the site, representing different planets and cosmic events like the big bang, the rings of saturn, that the band will be interacting with! For all the details and to enjoy this sonic tour, click here.
Several shows from The Dead’s upcoming spring tour will be broadcast on SIRIUS XM’s Grateful Dead Channel.
The live broadcasts will kick off with The Dead's show at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA on Saturday, April 18. In addition to live concert broadcasts, SIRIUS XM listeners will “have access to behind-the-scenes updates from various stops along on the tour.” David Lemieux, the band’s archivist and host of the Grateful Dead Channel's "Today in Grateful Dead History," and Grateful Dead Almanac editor Gary Lambert will co-host the live broadcasts. Listeners will also be able to call into the station at 1-877-767-DEAD.
Tibetan Chants for World Peace CD by the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir was featured in a NPR Morning Edition Story in conversation with Hudson Smith and Mickey Hart.
The Tibetan Buddhist chants on this album had never been recorded until 2001, when Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart brought The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir to his California studio to record the incredible multiphonics of their sacred rituals. The monks gave Hart permission to overdub their voices, achieving the huge sound of the 100-voice choir as one might hear at their mountain monastery – with each monk's voice singing a complete, extraordinary chord.
Gyuto Tantric University preserves one of Tibetan Buddhism's most esoteric traditions, training many young Tibetan monks in the spiritual legacy of the Gyuto order.
All royalties from sales of this recording go to Gyuto Tantric University.
Learn more and please support the Gyuto Monks here in the US by visiting their Gyuto Vajrayana Center located in San Jose, CA
Celebrating the rhythmic power of the planets and the stars.
Check out clips from The Dead's Spring '09 Tour HERE
Dead 2009 Downloads
The Dead Tour 2009 - All Access
Tipper Rocks!
The Dead Rehearsal Images
Mickey's Art Show
