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Michael Travis:


  Michael Travis receiving his Ashiko Drum from Felly and Maria Smith backstage at the Zilla show in Bend, Oregon 2004
  Instruments: Drums, percussion, bass, guitar, vocals

  Michael Travis was raised in Southern California and eventually gravitated to the mountain town of Crested Butte, Colorado where in 1993 he began to play music with a band that would become the String Cheese Incident. In doing so he has become “a pioneer in the art of modern improvisational jam-rock drumming. He is especially known for his ability to play both hand drums and the drum kit simultaneously.”


Bands:

The String Cheese Incident
Zilla
Zuvuya


Collaboration credits include:

Babatunde Olatunji
Bob Dylan
Bill Kreutzman
Bruce Hornsby
Stanley Jordan
Future Man (Bela Fleck)
Little Feat
Bunny Wailer
Phil Lesh and Friends
     
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