Legendary Grateful Dead drummer and three-time Grammy-award winning artist, Mickey Hart and the American Museum of Natural History are collaborating to present a dynamic artist-curated program at the Museum on the evenings of April 13th-14th. Tickets are now on sale here.

The program includes a walk-through of the Museum’s exhibition Our Senses: An Immersive Experience, which will feature a specially-curated soundscape uniquely composed for the event from samples of Hart’s latest album RAMU. Guests will then join Hart in the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space for an electrifying live performance entitled Musica Universalis: The Greatest Story Ever Told, created in collaboration with the Museum’s Director of Astrovisualization Carter Emmart.

With Hart playing live on his Pythagorean Monochord instrument known as “the Beam,” and original space visualizations designed by Emmart, visitors will be taken on a musical and visual journey as they explore Hart’s “sonifications” of our universe, from the first rhythms of the Big Bang to the neural vibrations of the human brain. The visual aspect of the collaboration will include segments highlighting Hart’s work with prominent neuroscientists, showing the effects of vibration on the brain.

A Q&A session with Hart, Emmart, neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley and Our Senses Curator Rob DeSalle will follow, exploring the connection between music and the vibratory universe, and the ways Hart uses that connection to further our understanding of the sonic relationship between man and the universe.

Ticket holders will take home an artist’s statement signed by Hart and a special edition vinyl copy of Hart’s album RAMU. An exclusive vinyl of the album will also be available on April 21 for Record Store Day.

Ace of Cup has announced two special upcoming shows, including their debut New York performance on February 26th. Details on these two shows below.

Feb 26th - 7PM
An Evening of Songs and Stories with the Ace of Cups & Guests. Special guests joining the conversation with the Ace include Lenny Kaye, David Fricke, Gary Lambert, Jesse Jarnow, Raffaela Kenny-Cincotta, Rhoney Stanley and more TBA. Evening also includes a full set of live music from the Ace of Cups. Their debut performance in NY.

March 1st - 6:30PM
Friday Night Jam - Ace of Cups, Rabbi Daniel Brenner & Relix. This is a very unique and intimate event. Limited tickets available. — with Diane Vitalich, Patrick Whalen, Denise Kaufman, Gary Lambert, Mary Simpson Mercy, Mary Alfiler, Lucas Van Lenten, Rebecca Rosen Shapiro and George Wallace.

The Electric Waste Band, featuring NBA legend Bill Walton on percussion, will be joined by special guests Jeff Chimenti on keyboards and Dave Ellis on sax for an extraordinary evening of spectacular Grateful Dead music on August 29, 2019 at the epically magnificent and historic Sweetwater Music Hall in downtown Mill Valley, California.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the show tips off at 8:00 p.m. with Paulie Mac (KNBR’S Murph & Mac) “in a rare and different conversation with Bill Walton.” The full band takes the stage immediately thereafter for two powerfully rockin’ sets of the band’s renowned crowd-inspired, high energy, improvisational rock-n-roll featuring the music of the Grateful Dead.

 Bill has been playing with the EWB band for years and brings his expertise as a devout and deadicated Deadhead in an effort to elevate the band and the music to new heights. The fans love it when Bill plays the show. “We’re all in good hands when Bill’s calling the tunes.” And with Jeff and Dave joining in, this show has no limits, boundaries or rules. For their part, the EWB has been performing in and around San Diego since 1989. They are currently in their 28th year of weekly Monday night shows at Winston’s in Ocean Beach.

Miss this at your own peril. You have been suitably warned. Be in town early.

Purchase tickets here!