The Mickey Hart Collection is now available for purchase. The collection begins with 25 albums drawn from 'The World', a series Mickey curated that incorporated his solo projects, other artists' productions, and re-releases of out-of-print titles.
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The collection includes music from virtually every corner of the globe and has been made digitally available for the first time by Smithsonian Folkways.
Six of the 25 albums form the Endangered Music Project, a collaboration between Mickey Hart and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which presents recordings from musical traditions at risk.
You can download ten songs for free from folkways.si.edu and mickeyhart.net. Below you can take a behind the scenes tour of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart: