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Pioneering a daring hybrid which crosses rock energy with the sophistication and improvisational fire of jazz, Herring's dynamic, exploratory guitar playing has been a key component of such renowned groups as the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Jazz is Dead, Project Z, and, most recently, Widespread Panic - with whom Herring plays lead guitar to this day. Much esteemed by his fellow musicians, Herring has also been called upon for stints with Phil Lesh and Friends, the Allman Brothers, and the Dead.

 

2010 marks the formation of the current rendition of The Jimmy Herring Band, featuring Herring on guitar, drummer extraordinaire Jeff Sipe (Aquarium Rescue Unit, Jazz is Dead, Shawn Lane), prolific keyboardist Matt Slocum (Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks), and the phenomenal Neal Fountain on bass (Col Bruce Hampton, Alex Machacek).

"I love all these guys and feel very comfortable playing with them.  They're all members of an extended family of musicians that stem from the world of Colonel Bruce Hampton. We joke all the time about how there are two kinds of musicians, those who have played with Bruce Hampton, and those who have not!  These three guys really have no musical boundaries.  As different as we all are, what we have in common is that we don't make any distinction between genres of music.  To us music is music and that philosophy is one of the things we learned from Bruce.  

 

The Jimmy Herring Band will be performing a wide range of material, including compositions from Herring's long-awaited and much-acclaimed 2008 solo debut "Lifeboat." 

 

 "The music for the upcoming tour will be a mixed bag.  Some stuff from the album and some covers I have always wanted to play.  Hopefully there will be enough freedom for everyone to relax and have equal creative input.  It's important to me to have fairly simple music that will allow for us to reinterpret it on a nightly basis.  Another thing I learned from Bruce Hampton is, the simpler the music, the easier it is to reinterpret it each time you play it."

 

Herring who just toured with Drummer Lenny White (Miles Davis, Return To Forever) will be one of the headliners at the New Universe Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 20-21 as well as performing there with The Lenny White Group and  paying a tribute to guitar icon John McLaughlin with whom he co bills the House of Blues concert in Boston on November 16^th.

 

 

Tour Dates

10-Nov Infinity Hall, Norfolk, CT

11-Nov Chameleon Club, Lancaster PA

12-Nov Toads New Haven, CT

13-Nov The Met-Pawtucket , RI

14-Nov Port City Music Hall,Portland, ME

15-Nov Highline Ballroom, NYC

16-Nov House of Blues,Boston (with John McLaughlin)

18-Nov Visulite Theater Charlotte, NC

19-Nov The Handlebar Greenville, SC

20-Nov Lincoln Theater, Raleigh, NC

21-Nov Lincoln Theater, Raleigh, NC

22-Nov Hat Factory,Richmond, VA

 

1-Dec  Cox Capitol  Macon

2-Dec 40Watt Athens

3-Dec Pourhouse-Charleston

4-Dec Live Wire Music Hall-Savannah

5-Dec Pisgah Brewing, Black Mountain

6-Dec  Rhythm and Brews, Chattanooga, TN

7-Dec Minglewood Hall Memphis

8-Dec Mercy Lounge, Nashville

9-Dec Bijou Theatre, Knoxville

10-Dec Variety Playhouse, Atlanta

11-Dec Workplay, Birmingham

10/30/10 Sat The Motet - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO 
10/30/10 Sat The Malah - La Tam at The Centro - Tampa, FL
10/30/10 Sat Steez - Portage Theater - Chicago, IL
10/30/10 Sat Shaggy Wonda - Max's Place - Bloomington, IN
10/30/10 Sat Papa Grows Funk - Howlin' Wolf - New Orleans, LA
10/30/10 Sat The New Mastersounds - UNO Lakefront Arena - New Orleans, LA
10/30/10 Sat Roots of Creation - Middle East Downstairs - Cambridge, MA
10/30/10 Sat The Disco Biscuits -  Moogfest - Asheville, NC
10/30/10 Sat Big Daddy Love - The Blind Tiger - Greensboro, NC
10/30/10 Sat The Mantras & Big Something  - The Pour House Music Hall - Raleigh, NC
10/30/10 Sat Moksha - Hard Rock Cafe - Las Vegas, NV
10/30/10 Sat Sim Redmond Band - Pages Paradise Island - Lancaster, NY
10/30/10 Sat Scythian - Stout NYC - New York, NY
10/30/10 Sat Garaj Mahal - The Casbah - Hamilton, ON
10/30/10 Sat The Ragbirds - Axe and Fiddle - Cottage Grove, OR
10/30/10 Sat Lotus - Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
10/30/10 Sat Turbine - Triumph Brewing Company - Philadelphia, PA
10/30/10 Sat Zach Deputy - The Pour House - Charleston, SC
10/30/10 Sat STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) - Stubb's BBQ - Austin, TX
10/30/10 Sat Perpetual Groove Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, VA
10/30/10 Sat The Disco Biscuits - Hampton Coliseum - Hampton, VA
10/30/10 Sat Ifdakar - Orpheum Theatre - Madison, WI

As the holidays approach and the spirit of giving swells, Boulder, Colorado-based national nonprofit Conscious Alliance announces the 7th Annual Holiday Meal Drive this Thanksgiving Season, taking place November 18-24, 2010. Conscious Alliance has been hosting food drives at concerts and sporting events since 2002, collecting and distributing nearly 1,000,000 pounds of food to impoverished Native American Reservations.

Last year, Conscious Alliance's Holiday Meal Drive collected enough food to distribute over 1,500 holiday meal boxes to Native American households at Lame Deer Reservation in Montana, Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and Houma Reservation in Louisiana. This holiday season, Conscious Alliance hopes to feed more than 10,000 families through donations and it's easy to help. A donation of $15 or more will provide dinner for a family this holiday season and only $30 or more will feed an individual for an entire week. For more information or to make a donation, visit www.consciousalliance.org/donate.

Conscious Alliance concentrates much of their efforts on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where the average median income is under $3,000. Many families in this region struggle to provide food and heat for their households. Native American youth are particularly affected by the poverty in Pine Ridge, where one-fourth of the population is under the age of eighteen. Not forgetting the children in these impoverished families, Conscious Alliance will host a toy drive too - this year at the November 7, 2010 Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! performance at Broomfield, Colorado's 1STBANK Center.

All toys collected at Kia Motors Presents Yo Gabba Gabba! Live!: There's A Party In My City! will benefit the youth of this area and be distributed during the holiday season. It is recommended all donations at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! are a new stuffed animal valued at $10 or more.

To find out more information or to make a donation, visit www.consciousalliance.org.