Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart will head out on the road with a new internationally-minded ensemble, Bembe Orisha, starting October 28th in Clearwater, Fla., for a seventeen-date tour that ...

For nearly 30 years, Mickey Hart inspired twirlers and tapers as one of the two drummers in the Grateful Dead. While partner Billy Kreutzmann rolled out jazzy fills and bluesy beats, Hart enriched the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and his band, Bembé Orisha, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, at Purdue University. The performance been moved from Elliott Hall to ...

When Mickey Hart was just 4 or 5 years old, he knew he’d eventually become a drummer “I never had any doubt. My mother and father were both drummers,” said Hart on Sunday right before a gig with his ...