GRATEFUL DEAD'S BILL KREUTZMANN ANNOUNCES SUMMER DATES FOR BK3 FEATURING JAMES "HUTCH" HUTCHINSON AND SCOTT MURAWSKI
THE DEAD REUNITE FOR A RUN OF DATES THIS SPRING
Bill Kreutzmann, Grateful Dead drummer for the band's entire thirty year career, tours this summer with his potent new trio project, BK3. For the summer run, BK3 features bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt) and guitarist Scott Murawski (Max Creek). This BK3 announcement comes as Bill is wrapping up a highly anticipated Dead reunion tour. An art exhibit, The Art of Bill Kreutzmann and the Grateful Dead, has popped up in various cities along The Dead tour, including a showing at Café Le Cave in Des Plaines, Illinois on May 4th and 5th.
With BK3, Kreutzmann finds himself lined up and locking into a powerful new wave of musical freedom. In all its lineup variations (Phish bassist Mike Gordon and Allman Brothers' bassist Oteil Burbridge have both done gigs with BK3) Kreutzmann is thoroughly enjoying making music with such great players, and is driven by musical chemistry that is simply "over the top." This run of shows, which begins on the east coast on May 29th and includes festival stops such as Mountain Jam Festival, Oregon Country Fair, and All Good Music Festival, is the first with Hutch Hutchinson on bass
The list of currently confirmed tour dates for BK3, Bill Kreutzmann featuring James "Hutch" Hutchinson and Scott Murawski is as follows:
May 29 Port City Music Hall Portland ME
May 30 Toad's Place New Haven CT
May 31 Mountain Jam Festival Hunter NY
June 03 The National Richmond VA June 04 Cat's Cradle Carrboro NC
June 05 The Music Farm Charleston SC
June 06 Wanee Music Festival Live Oak FL
July 10 Oregon County Fair Veneta OR
July 12 All Good Music Festival Masontown WV
Bill Kreutzmann's Art
Chicago, Illinois: Bill Kreutzmann, one of the founding members and drummer for the San Francisco rock and roll band The Grateful Dead, will have his visual art on display and for sale at a special exhibit, “The Art of the Grateful Dead” May 4th and 5th. This exhibit will coincide with The Dead’s concerts at the Allstate Arena.
Kreutzmann is a man of many passions. He started playing drums at the age of 13, despite having been told by his sixth grade music teacher that he couldn't keep a beat. In 1965 the Grateful Dead was born. Over the next 30 years Kreutzmann, with his 5 band mates, created a cultural phenomenon traveling the country making music. While on the road the lead singer, Jerry Garcia, would paint and draw. By the early nineties Garcia was an established artist and Bill was intrigued with Jerry’s digital art. On a day off from performing Jerry invited Bill to his room to show him how the digital process worked. Bill was hooked.
After Jerry’s death in 1995 Kreutzmann moved to Hawaii where he combined his love of photography and digital media. He expanded on what Jerry taught him and began to experiment with 3-D software, animation programs and Photoshop. The result was a body of artwork that was both psychedelic and surreal. He equated creating his digital art to playing drums. He would sit at his computer and his imagination would just flow. While living in Hawaii his other passions included all things oceanic: surfing, kayaking, and diving, and in 1993 made a video, "Ocean Spirit," about a trip he made to Mexico's Revillagigedo Islands.
In 2001, Bill returned to the mainland and had his first one man art exhibit at Walnut Street Gallery in Colorado. Unsure of the reaction he would get from fans, Bill was overwhelmed with the positive response. The show sold out and Bill went on to sell his works across the country. In 2003 and 2004 when The Dead reunited for their summer shows at Red Rocks, Walnut Street Gallery hosted two art exhibits at the amphitheater featuring Kreutzmann’s art. Once again Bill was amazed at the response to his works and the praise from collectors.
The exhibit will feature limited edition works created by Bill Kreutzmann, rare signed work by Jerry Garcia and the photography of the Grateful Dead chronicling their 30 year career. The exhibit will be held at Café Le Cave, 2777 Mannheim Road, Des Plaines, Illinois. The exhibit will be located directly across the street from the concert venue; it is free and open to the public. Hours of the exhibit will be Monday, May 4, 2009 – 12-6 and Tuesday, May 5, 2009 – 10-6.
For more information about the exhibits or interview requests call Walnut Street Gallery at 800.562.3387. Bill’s art can be found exclusively online at http://www.walnutst.com/.
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Bill Kreutzmann Biography
Bill Kreutzmann (born May 7, 1946 in Palo Alto, California) was the drummer for legendary rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire 30-year career. Kreutzmann started playing drums at the age of 13, despite having been told by his sixth grade music teacher that he couldn't keep a beat. As a teenager, he met Aldous Huxley at his high school, who encouraged him in his drumming. In 1962, Kreutzmann was working at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Palo Alto, and a young picker named Jerry Garcia stopped in and purchased a banjo from him. Soon after, Garcia also got a job at Dana’s teaching guitar lessons, and forged a musical friendship with Kreutzmann that would span four decades.
Kreutzmann formed a new band, the Zodiacs, in 1963, featuring Pigpen on harmonica, Garcia on bass, and Troy Weidenheimer on guitar. The Zodiacs became the Warlocks by 1965, and it wasn’t long before the Warlocks went electric. Their first real gig was May 5, 1965, two days before Kreutzmann's 19th birthday. In November of 1965, the Warlocks became the Grateful Dead. Meeting fellow percussionist Mickey Hart in the fall of 1967 would have a big impact on Kreutzmann's career. Hart soon joined the Dead, making it one of the first (and few) rock bands to feature two drummers. The two percussionists' remarkable cohesion, synchronicity, and driving power would be a hallmark of the Grateful Dead sound for the next thirty years, earning them the nickname "The Rhythm Devils". Their ten-minute drum duets, a feature of every show from 1978 – 1995 became legendary in the rock world. Kreutzmann remained with the Grateful Dead until its dissolution following the passing of Garcia in 1995, making him one of the four members to play at every single one of the band's 3,500 shows along with Garcia, Weir and Lesh.
During 2006, Kreutzmann teamed up with fellow Grateful Dead bandmate and drummer Mickey Hart, former Phish bassist Mike Gordon and former The Other Ones lead guitarist Steve Kimock to form the Rhythm Devils - a name that dates back to his Dead days given to him and Hart for their legendary drum solos and improvisation. The band features songs from their respective former bands as well as new songs written by Jerry Garcia's songwriting companion Robert Hunter. The Rhythm Devils first tour was Fall 2006 which wrapped up at the popular Vegoose festival in Las Vegas, NV over the Halloween weekend.
Kreutzmann and the Grateful Dead were honored with a life time achievement award at the 2007 Grammy's in Los Angeles, CA. Kreutzmann also does work as a visual artist and, in 2001, began releasing limited edition reproductions of his digital artwork. The newest BK project is a Sirius Radio show called "Drumming into the Light" on The Grateful Dead channel 32 - check it out..........
Walnut Street Gallery
Rock and Roll was not in the mission statement, Rock and Roll Art was not part of the business plan, but very quickly it became the main focus for Walnut Street Gallery. Bill and Laura Eveleigh started Walnut Street Gallery in 1989 with a simple vision to bring internationally and nationally known contemporary artists to the Fort Collins, Colorado area. However, within a month of opening their gallery they were working with Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones and Baron Wolman, the first chief photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine.
The gallery hosted their first show for Ronnie and Baron in the fall of 1989 and it was an overwhelming success. The collectors embraced this new art form with a vengeance and the Eveleigh's decided to take their show on the road. Traveling to cities where rock bands were playing for several days, Walnut Street Gallery set up mini galleries near the concert venues. At the mini galleries they sold the works of the musicians, album cover artists and photographers associated with the bands. Then the musicians began to take notice. Bill Kreutzmann, Carlos Santana, Jerry Garcia, John Entwistle of The Who and Tico Torres from Bon Jovi all asked to participate in art projects with Walnut Street Gallery. The gallery set up a website and began promoting these musicians' artwork worldwide.Today Walnut Street Gallery continues their work with the musicians, album cover artists and photographers in the music industry. After 20 years the collectors may be going gray, the musicians may be slowing down, and the Eveleigh's prefer home to life on the road. But the music and the art of rock and roll® will last forever.
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