Jim Donovan (musician)

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Jim Donovan is a professional drummer and percussionist, a recording artist, and a 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 has built a series of educational drumming workshop programs that he teaches across the US at universities, festivals, schools, corporations and specialty venues. He is an instructor at Saint Francis University and is the current director of drumming at the New York Institute of Dance and Education.

He has performed and taught at the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium, and participated in the SpiritDrum Festival in 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.^[3] He is a featured columnist in Drum! Magazine, and was nominated for “Best Rock Pop Percussionist” in the 2004 Drum! Magazine Readers poll.

1 Discography
- 1.1 With Rusted Root
2 References
3 External link

[edit] Discography

1998 - Indigo: Music for Exploration Volume 1
2000 - Pulse: Music for Exploration Volume 2
2004 - Revelation #9
Rhythm and Drumming Vol.1 (Play along CD)
Rhythm & Drumming Vol. 2 (Play-along CD)
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
2006 - Rhythmic Foundation Volume 2

[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)