The news is out, all over town... Mickey, Bill, and Bob have joined forces with Grammy Winning singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band Dead & Company. The band will take the stage at the legendary Madison Square Garden on Halloween night, October 31, 2015 and will perform two sets of music drawing largely from the Dead’s historic catalog of songs.
More hot show news! On May 14, an extraordinary collection of music stars will come together at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, for DEAR JERRY: CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF JERRY GARCIA!
Grateful Dead Original Members Reunite to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
“Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead" at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2015
Marks the Grateful Dead Members' Final Performance Together
Event information available at Dead50.net
Today's the day! Do your part - #GoVote. For questions, or to find your polling place, visit HeadCount.org or call 866 OUR-VOTE.
Mickey Hart will join his long-time partner (Diga, Planet Drum) Zakir Hussain, the master of the Indian tabla, in a tribute to the late, great, Armando Peraza, legendary for his work with Santana, Cal Tjader, and many more, at the San Francisco Jazz Center, 201 Franklin St., San Francisco, on Sunday, October 12, at 7 p.m. Not to be missed. More info at www.sfjazz.org.
Gathering of the Vibes featured one of the most unique collaborations of the year, as The Disco Biscuits invited Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann on stage for a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration. Prior to the performance, all involved parties sat down for a special Q&A to discuss a variety of topics hosted by HeadCount, the organization in which Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein is a co-chair.
Mickey Hart drops a new video in connection with his appearance this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas! Check out "Playin, Playin in the Brain" here.
Ray Dolby is Dead
Oh my, oh my… he’s just not the type to die…
Thoughts on Ray Dolby 9/13/13
He had the Spirit of Pythagoras riding shotgun with him. Ray’s process was simple, a miniature of the universe, the cosmos. He made a complex problem easy and efficient. Expand and contract, expand and contract in Rhythm.
The Mickey Hart Band will release their second album in two years on August 13th, 2013, titled Superorganism, just weeks before Hart's 70th Birthday. On the band's last record, Mysterium Tremendum (2012), Hart sonified light waves from space with the help of NASA and scientists from Penn State and Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Now, with Superorganism, Hart is going even deeper. "This time we journey into the micro, the hidden worlds of rhythm within us, within our bodies," says Hart. "The brain, Rhythm Central, the place of dreams is explored.
The Mickey Hart Band Announces Second Leg of Worlds Within Tour
Releases Free Download of a New Live Song Feat. Lyrics by Robert Hunter
The Mickey Hart Band has announced new May tour dates for the second leg of their Worlds Within tour. The band will once again bring along Babatunde Olatunji protege's, the African Showboyz, as main support for the tour.
