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Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart’s innovative Planet Drum CD convened some of the world’s finest drum talent for a collaboration that won the very first GRAMMY for world music—bringing together Nigerian drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, Nigerian talking drum ace Sikiru Adepoju, and Puerto Rico’s master conguero Giovanni Hidalgo, among others. The 1991 album spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard world music chart, and continues to sell as a perennial favorite.
Fifteen years later, the musical partnership of Hart and Hussain—which began with their groundbreaking 1970s world fusion experiment Diga Rhythm Band—resumes, with a fresh collaboration of tranced-out grooves, elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion and again enlists the great partnership of Adepoju and Hidalgo. This time they are joined by Taufiq Qureshi on percussion & vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi, and the late, great Olatunji in sampled vocals from the original sessions. Elements from Hart’s various world music recordings, including the Kaluli tribespeople of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest, are woven with the live performances into a danceable, multi-textured celebration of rhythm.
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www.mickeyhart.net | Live Dates
5/15/2008
Throckmorton Theatre
Mill Valley, CA
6/6/2008
Health and Harmony Festival
Santa Rosa, CA
6/8/2008
Wakarusa Music Festival/Clinton Lake State Park
Lawrence, KS
7/3/2008
Rothbury Festival
Rothbury, MI
7/4/2008
Nelson Ledges Quarry Park
Garrettsville, OH
7/5/2008
Lake View Music Fest
Chicago, IL
7/6/2008
Summerfest
Milwaukee, WI
7/8/2008
Calvin Theater
Northampton, MA
7/9/2008
The Birchmere
Alexandria, VA
7/10/2008
Morristown Community Center
Morristown, NJ
7/11/2008
Penn's Peak
Jim Thorpe, PA
7/12/2008
Great South Bay Music Festival
Patchogue, NY
7/13/2008
Kripalu Center
Stockbridge, MA
7/15/2008
The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
New York, NY
7/17/2008
Thursday At The Square
Buffalo, NY
7/18/2008
Majestic City Music Hall
Binghamton, NY
7/19/2008
Palace Theatre
Greensburg, PA
7/20/2008
Ram's Head Tavern
Annapolis, MD
7/24/2008
10K Lakes Music Festival
Detroit Lakes, MN
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