Jim Donovan (musician)
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Jim Donovan (born March 10, 1968) is a professional drummer and percussionist, a recording artist, teacher and lecturer.[1] He is best known as the drummer for the band Rusted Root.[1] He plays both standard drum kit and African hand drums (such as the djembe, ashiko and talking drum). He has released several solo CDs and instructional drumming CDs, and has recorded with Triloka recording artist Krishna Das on his highly acclaimed CD Live on Earth (For a Limited Time Only). Donovan's CD Revelation #9 was nominated for 2004 Electronica Album of the Year by Just Plain Folks Songwriters organization.[2]
Donovan is an instructor at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA and the director of their annual Summer Rhythm Renewal multi-day workshop. He is also the current director of drumming at the New York Institute of Dance and Education.
Donovan has built a series of educational drumming workshop programs that he teaches across the US at universities, festivals, schools, corporations and specialty venues, and in 2006-2007 he released his first instructional drumming DVD entitled - "Jim Donovan's Rhythmic Foundation: Interactive African Drumming for Everyone."
He has performed and taught throughout North America and Euorpe. Performance highlights include opening slots for Santana, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, Sting, and the Dave Matthews Band. Teaching highlights include the Omega Institute (2007), The Great Blue Heron Music Festival (2000-2008), the Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance (2005), the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium, and participation in the SpiritDrum Festival (2002), a tribute event to the late African master drummer Babatunde Olatunji with Muruga Booker, Sikiru Adepoju, Perry Robinson, Halim El-Dabh, Badal Roy and Jeff Rosenbaum. [1] [3] He is a featured columnist in Drum! Magazine, and was nominated for “Best Rock Pop Percussionist” in the 2004 Drum! Magazine Readers poll.
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[edit] Discography
- 1998 - Indigo: Music for Exploration Volume 1
- 2000 - Pulse: Music for Exploration Volume 2
- 2000- Rhythm and Drumming Vol.1 (Play along CD)
- 2001- Rhythm & Drumming Vol. 2 (Play-along CD)
- 2004 - Revelation #9
- 2005 - Live on Earth (For A Limited Time Only) - Krishna Das (Triloka)
- 2006 - Drum the Ecstatic International Live
- 2006 - The Yoga of Drum and Chant
- 2006- "Rhythmic Foundation Volume 1 Instructional audio CD"
- 2006- "Rhythmic Foundation Volume 2 Instructional audio CD"
[edit] Instructional DVD
- 2007 - Jim Donovan's Rhythmic Foundation: Interactive African Drumming for Everyone Volume 1 DVD
[edit] With Rusted Root
- 1994 - When I Woke (Mercury/Universal)
- 1996 - Remember (Mercury/Universal)
- 1996 - Evil Ways (Mercury/Universal)
- 1998 - Rusted Root (Mercury/Universal)
- 2002 - Welcome to My Party (Island)
- 2003 - Cruel Sun (Touchy Pegg)
- 2004 - Rusted Root Live (Touchy Pegg)
- 2005 - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rusted Root (Mercury/Universal)
