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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.
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 an instructional DVD called Rhythmic Foundation: Interactive African Drumming For Everyone.
Fulfilling his desire to share the power of rhythm first hand, Donovan teaches a series of educational drumming workshop programs across the US and Europe at universities, festivals, schools, corporations, and specialty venues.  He is also a full time instructor of music at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA and is the director of the Saint Francis University World Drumming Ensemble.
Donovan is a featured monthly columnist in Drum! Magazine and was nominated for “Best Rock Pop Percussionist” in Drum! Magazine's Readers poll.

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