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About Jim Donovan
As a founding member of the multi-platinum band Rusted Root, Jim Donovan has helped millions of people all over the globe to dance, sweat, and smile since 1990. Rusted Root has made countless trips around North America, where they shared the stage with rock & roll legends such as Santana, Page and Plant, Sting, Dave Matthews Band, The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead and many others.
They have appeared on numerous national TV shows, including MTV, FX, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, VH-1's Hard Rock Live, and the CBS Morning Show. Their music has been featured on numerous television shows as well as in major motion films such as Ice Age, Matilda, Twister, and the PBS Web of Life Documentary.
As a solo artist, Donovan has released 5 highly acclaimed solo CD's as well as 4 instructional drumming CD's. His newest releases include Drum the Ecstatic International, The Yoga of Drum and Chant, and a hand drumming instructional series called Rhythmic Foundation: Volumes 1 and 2.
Donovan has just released his first instructional DVD entitled "Rhythmic Foundation: Interactive African Drumming for Everyone" which serves the beginner to intermediate drummer.
He has also recorded with World Music recording artist Krishna Das on his highly acclaimed CD "Live on Earth".
Donovan's 2004 world/electronic disc entitled "Revelation 9" was nominated for 2004 Electronica Album of the Year by International Songwriters organization.
Fulfilling his desire to share the power of rhythm first hand to people, Donovan has built a series of educational drumming workshop programs that he teaches across the US and Europe at universities, festivals, schools, corporations and specialty venues.
He has recently become a full time music instructor at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA and is the current director of the Saint Francis University World Drumming Ensemble.
Donovan is a featured monthly columnist in Drum! Magazine, the world's number one drumming magazine, and was nominated for "Best Rock Pop Percussionist" in Drum! Magazine's Readers poll.
Visit Jim on the web at http://www.JimDonovanMusic.com
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