Mickey Hart reactivates Planet Drum

Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart has reactivated his Planet Drum collective for a short tour this fall. The group, which has been dormant for nearly 10 years, will play a handful of dates on the West Coast later this month, and more could be added. The tour features Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo, all of whom played on the Planet Drum album in 1991 that won the first-ever World Music Grammy Award. As only he can, Hart said, "We're taking the archaic rhythm worlds into outer space. Planet Drum explores rhythm and noise... it's a sound yoga of processed acoustic percussion headed straight for the trance zone that becomes a dance of ancient and modern worlds. Deep drumming is a skeleton key into these realms." Hart and Hussain have been friends and collaborators since the late '60s.

The Planet Drum itinerary includes (subject to change):
Sep 20 - Santa Barbara, CA - Lobero Theatre
Sep 21 - Hollywood, CA - The Avalon
Sep 22 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Rio
Sep 23 - San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Sep 24 - Arcata, CA - John Van Duzer Theatre
Sep 27 - Medford, OR - Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater
Sep 29 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
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