VIDEOS: All About the Rex Foundation, with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Mountain Girl, and others
New Mickey Hart Album, Mysterium Tremendium – due April 10 – and more tour dates!
MESSAGE FROM MICKEY
Can’t wait to unleash Mysterium Tremendum to you all in just over a month. This band is on fire and the cd shines like a silver dollar. We are ready to get on the bus to create something special and unique with these new songs. We’ll be pulling out some of my favorite Dead tunes on this tour and take them for a ride as well. Music connects us with the spirit in us and we need this powerful medicine now more than ever.
As my old friend Albert Einstein would say…” Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there will ever be to know and understand.”
In rhythm,
– Mickey
TOUR DATES:
03|01|12 Santa Cruz, CA The Rio Theatre
03|02|12 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
03|03|12 Las Vegas, NV The Hard Rock Cafe
03|04|12 Flagstaff, AZ Orpheum Theatre
03|06|12 San Luis Obispo, CA SLO Brewery
03|07|12 Healdsburg, CA The Raven Theater
03|08|12 Sacramento, CA Colonial Theater
03|09|12 Chico, CA El Rey Theatre ABOVE THE CLOUDS TOUR
04|10|12 Louisville, KY Headliner’s Music Hall
04|11|12 Cleveland, OH Rock & Roll H.O.F.
04|12|12 Jim Thorpe, PA Penn’s Peak
04|13|12 Ridgefield, CT Ridgefield Playhouse
04|14|12 Londonderry, NH Tupelo Music Hall
04|16|12 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
04|17|12 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
04|18|12 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
04|20|12 Live Oak, FL The Wanee Festival
04|21|12 Atlanta, GA Sweetwater 420 Festival
04|22|12 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre
04|23|12 Fayetteville, AR George’s Majestic
04|25|12 Dallas, TX The Granada Theatre
04|26|12 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
NEW TOUR DATES ADDED
04|27|12 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s
05|07|12 Bend, OR Tower Theatre
05|08|12 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
05|09|12 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre
05|10|12 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
05|11|12 Ashland, OR Ashland Armory
05|12|12 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
05|15|12 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
05|16|12 Salt Lake City, UT State Room
Bob Weir and Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart to play at All Good Music Festival 2012
Anxiously awaiting news about Summer tours and Festivals…
…and here is a big surprise! While Furthur was a headliner at the All Good Music Festival for the last two years, they will not be there in 2012. Bob Weir will be performing with Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis (does this imply a tour for Bruce and Bob?) and Phil Lesh and Friends will also be at this years festival (and, does this imply a tour for Phil and Friends?). Phil’s Friends line-up has not been announced, but expect something stellar!
And… the Mickey Hart band will also be at All Good Music Festival 2012.
Plus, The Allman Brothers Band, Railroad Earth, and many more. Not all artists are even announced yet, and the festival lineup is incredible. Looks like it really is ALL GOOD!
The Festival will be held July 19-22 at Legend Valley Concert Venue & Campground – the location formerly known as Buckeye Lake Music Center.
From All Good Music Festival:
ALL GOOD FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND, PHIL LESH & FRIENDS, THE FLAMING LIPS & MORE
16th Annual Music & Camping Event to Feature Over 40 Bands
Festival to Be Held July 19-22 Weekend at Legend Valley Concert Venue & Campground – 30 Minutes East of Columbus, OH
Thornville, OH – February 21, 2012 – The All Good Music Festival & Campout continues its exhibition of diverse and internationally notable talent as over 40 renowned music artists take to the stages July 19-22 at the Legend Valley Concert Venue & Campground located 30 minutes east of Columbus, Ohio.
The historic site, formerly known as the Buckeye Lake Music Center, has hosted a celebrated roster of famous performers and may be best known as the venue of several notable Grateful Dead performances in the late 1980’s & early 90’s.
The All Good Festival continues its tradition of side by side main stages with no overlapping sets guaranteeing every patron the opportunity to see every performance in full.
The 2012 All Good Festival lineup includes:
The Allman Brothers Band
Phil Lesh and Friends
The Flaming Lips
Bob Weir & Bruce Hornsby featuring special guest Branford Marsalis
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Lotus
G. Love & Special Sauce
Galactic
Shpongle presents The Masquerade
Mickey Hart Band
Trampled by Turtles
SOJA
Railroad Earth
Papadosio
The Werks
The Wood Brothers
Lettuce
The Lumineers
Everyone Orchestra
The Rex Jam
Plus many more to be announced
Over the coming months, another 20+ artists will be announced, adding to the already stacked roster ranging from rock, bluegrass, indie, and funk to electronica, hip-hop, collaborative jams, and much more. The new All Good location in Ohio offers easy access to the festival with better roads and faster processing than were possible at the festival’s previous site in West Virginia. Once onsite, attendees can also expect comfortable camping, RV camping, quiet family camping, artisan food vendors, diverse craft vendors, regional microbrews, designated bonfire pits, kids entertainment, drum circles, play shops, endless options for entertainment and safety. Tickets to the 16th annual All Good Music Festival & Campout go on sale Friday, February 24 at 12 PM EST at www.allgoodfestival.com/tickets and include all 4 days and nights of camping, parking, plus all entertainment. Early Bird tickets will be available for a limited time for $159.00 starting this Friday, and are $70 off the gate price. There are also Even Better VIP packages available, which include an exclusive concert viewing and camping area close to the stages, private and air conditioned bathrooms and showers, free taxi shuttles, premium All Good merchandise and more.
For more information, please visit:
www.allgoodfestival.com
www.facebook.com/allgoodmusicfestival
www.twitter.com/allgoodfestival
Mickey Hart New album Mysterium Tremendum and tour Above The Clouds
Mickey Hart’s long anticipated new album Mysterium Tremendum is due out on April 10, 2012.
It will contain new music from the Mickey Hart Band, including new songs from the ever prolific Robert Hunter. Many of the expected tracks have been performed in recent months as Mickey has been out on the road with this project, including “Let There Be Light”, “Slo Jo Rain” and “Supersonic”.
Mickey Hart Band “Let There Be Light” features lyrics by Robert Hunter
Mickey Hart and his new band has been in the studio with producer Ben Yonas, who also plays in the Mickey Hart Band. Ben is often tucked away further back of the stage, adding his sonifications on keyboards and a Mac.
He is literally upstaged, likely by design, by frontman singer Tim Hockenberry, who also plays keyboards as well as multiple other instruments. Also in front is Crystal Monee Hall, who sings and plays guitar, Gawain Mathews on lead guitar, Ian “INKX” Herman on drums, longtime Mickey Hart player Sikiru Adepoju on talking drum and djembe, and in the bass position Dave Schools from Widespread Panic. Of course Mickey Hart is playing drums, the beam, and RAMU – his computer programmed Random Access Digital Musical Universe gizmo.
This band, creating the sound and finding the right musicians to bring it to life, is something Mickey has been developing behind the scenes for a little while. Deadheadland spoke to Mickey about it last summer in our interview with him. He first took it out in embryonic form at the Wave Gravy 75th Birthday celebration in 2011, and then officially debuted over the summer.
Read our coverage of his shows in San Francisco and Oakland.
MICKEY HART WEST COAST TOUR
The Mickey Hart Band will be on tour in the west during March 2012:
Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Las Vegas NV, Flagstaff AZ, San Luis Obispo, Healdsburg, Sacramento and Chico.
MICKEY HART ABOVE THE CLOUDS TOUR
Then, on the same day as the Mysterium Tremendum album is released, April 10, 2012, the Mickey Hart Band begins it’s ambitious ABOVE THE CLOUDS tour in Louisville Kentucky. Then Cleveland OH, Jim Thorpe PA, Ridgefield CT, Londonderry NH, Washington DC, Carrboro NC, Ashville NC, the Wanee Festival in Live Oak FL, Sweetwater 420 Festival in Atlanta GA, Birmingham AL, Fayetville AR, Dallas TX, and Austin TX.
Quite a tour, and hitting lots of places that need a good show! And that’s just to start… expect a lot more music from mickey this festival season. The Mickey Hart Band also has these great Fan Club Ticket deals and VIP Ticket Packages that include meet and greet and photos with Mickey, and more.
Get the full tour, FanClub and VIP details here: http://mickeyhart.net/shows/
Go see the Mickey Hart Band, and when it comes out, get the album. It is a real treat to get to hear these new Robert Hunter penned tunes with a fresh vibe with Hart. Mickey is coming from a real good place, and he want’s to share it with you. Good energy you can feel.
Wanee Festival 2012 – Furthur | Allman Brothers | Mickey Hart | Hot Tuna | Trigger Hippy | Gov't Mule | Eoto | Particle…
Furthur Allman • Brothers Band
Gov’t Mule • Tedeschi Trucks Band
Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band • Buddy Guy
Bruce Hornsby• Mickey Hart Band
Hot Tuna Electric • Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers Band
Leftover Salmon • North Mississippi Allstars
Trigger Hippy (Joan Osborne, Jackie Greene, Steve Gorman, Audley Freed, Nick Govrik)
Soja
• Conspirator • Eoto
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk • Particle
Devon Allman’s Honeytribe •
Zach Deputy
Matt Schofield • Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio
Big Sams Funky Nation • Charles Bradley
Bonerama • Jacob Jeffries Band
The Yeti Trio • Bonnie Blue
Music starts Thursday, April 19th at 2:30pm!
Three Nights of Camping!
www.waneefestival.com
