Farm Aid 2013 Nets Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson : June 17, 2013

Farm Aid will move to New York this year, and the bill will be topped once again by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews. Nelson, Young and Mellencamp foun ...

Concert Review: Dave Matthews, Sting, Grace Potter at Centennial Park in Atlanta : April 08, 2013

The Final Four was officially in the books, but the music had just begun to play Sunday afternoon at the Big Dance Concert Series in Atlanta's Centennial Park. The Capital On ...

Dave Matthews, Muse, Zac Brown, Sting Hit Atlanta for Free Final Four Concerts : April 03, 2013

Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Muse, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and Zac Brown Band will be among the performers for the 2013 NCAA Big Dance Concert Series in Atlanta presented a ...

Dave Matthews Band Pack Summer with 45-Date Concert Tour : February 18, 2013

Dave Matthews Band has spent many a summers on the road, and this year will be no different as the group releases an extensive North American tour schedule. Many stops on the to ...

Fleetwood Mac, Dave Matthews, Billy Joel on for 2013 New Orleans Jazz Festival : January 17, 2013

The 2013 incarnation of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be just as eclectic as ever – or at least as diverse as it has been for years now. Big names include Fle ...

Album Review: Dave Matthews Band ‘Away From the World’ : October 13, 2012

Dave Matthews has always been good to his fans. He has put out a standing offer, from an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, to correct the album cover when he signs autographs for fa ...

Dave Matthews Band Bundle Up for Winter Tour of East Coast : October 02, 2012

Celebrating their recent number one album, Dave Matthews Band will head out on the road for a winter tour later this year. The tour will kick off with a two-night stand for the ...

Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Jack Johnson Spearhead Farm Aid in September : July 10, 2012

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Jack Johnson and Dave Matthews have been announced as the headliners for this year’s annual Farm Aid benefit concert. The event wil ...

Dave Matthews Preps New Album, Plays Acoustic Show with Tim Reynolds : June 29, 2012

Most artists go on tour after they release an album, but the Dave Matthews Band will release their next album two days following the end of their current tour, it was announced rec ...

Dave Matthews, Tool, Flaming Lips Play Inaugural River’s Edge Music Festival : April 06, 2012

The Dave Matthews Band and Tool will headline Saint Paul’s River’s Edge Music Festival. The appearance will be Tool’s only U.S. appearance this year. The festival also wil ...

Bob Dylan Tribute Album Features Adele, Dave Matthews, Sting : October 20, 2011

Sting has announced he will join a multitude of other artists including Adele and Dave Matthews that are contributing songs to "Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Ye ...

Dave Matthews Grabs Tim Reynolds for Pair of Northeast Concert Dates : October 19, 2011

The relationship between Dave Matthews and guitarist Tim Reynolds goes back to before the beginnings of the Dave Matthews Band in 1991, though Reynolds name is mostly associated wi ...

Bridge School Finalized with Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons : September 07, 2011

This year's Bride School Benefit Concert lineup has been announced. The Neil Young annual event has a gigantic bill to celebrate the silver anniversary of the concert. It will take ...

Dave Matthews NYC Caravan Stop Rescheduled : September 01, 2011

The New York City show of the Dave Matthews Band's music caravan of three days has been rescheduled. Originally the festival was to have taken place on Governors Island last weeken ...

Dave Matthews Band Charts New Fall Tour Dates for 2010 : September 10, 2010

Jam icons Dave Matthews Band has just added nine more dates to their current tour before finally going on a much needed break from the road later this year. The new slate of dat ...

Farm Aid Returns with Heavyweights Kenny Chesney, Dave Matthews : August 10, 2010

This year's lineup for the benefit show Farm Aid, which will include mainstays Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Willie Nelson, recently got much bigger. Organizers ...

Dave Matthews Band Forgoes Touring in 2011 : May 15, 2010

The Dave Matthews Band, after almost non-stop touring for two decades, has decided finally to take a break from the road, at least for a year. The band is well known for having lo ...

Wrigley Field Will Host Dave Matthews and Elton John & Billy Joel : February 13, 2010

Wrigley Field will play host to more than just baseball this summer. Dave Matthews Band and Elton John & Billy Joel both have slated dates to play the storied park. There had been ...

Dave Matthews Band Unpacks Summer Tour for 2010 : January 27, 2010

One of the hardest touring bands in music is charting its concert dates for its annual summer tour. Dave Matthews and company will kick off their North American tour in at Hartford ...

Top 50 Concert Tours of the Decade : December 22, 2009

Well it’s official. 2009 is days away from coming to a close so it’s time to pull out all of those best of the decade lists. They are exhaustive, tedious and largely subjective ...

Churchill Downs Plays Host to HullabaLOU 3-Day Music Festival : November 30, 2009

When you've got a sprawling complex like Churchill Downs, you've got to figure out how to get more use out of it than a few horse races a year. The home of the famous Kentucky Derb ...

dave matthews band Biography

The American rock group Dave Matthews Band was formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Original members of the band included Dave Matthews (guitarist, singer-songwriter), Stefan Lessard (bassist), Carter Beauford (backing vocalist, drummer) and LeRoi Moore (saxophonist). Shortly after the formation of the band, Boyd Tinsley joined as the band's violinist. In August 2008, Moore died from complications after an ATV accident. Jeff Coffin, Grammy Award winning saxophonist from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, since that time has filled in Moore's spot at saxophone. Tim Reynolds and Rashawn Ross are also full time touring band members.

The musicians in the band all have roots from different musical genres including rock, jazz, soul, classical, hip-hop and bluegrass, which has come together and created an eclectic sound and garnered them a diverse array of fans from different quarters. The Dave Matthews Band, as of 2010, has sold approximately 30-40 million worldwide copies.

The Dave Matthews Band is well known for their summer long tours each year of Europe and the US, where they feature long improvisational versions of their songs, with an elaborate lighting and video show accompanying them which are produced by Fenton Williams. After touring for twenty years in a row the band is taking summer 2011 off. “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” the first album from the band since the death of Moore, debuted in the No. 1 spot Billboard's 200 chart to give the fans their fifth number one debut in a row and the second band after Metallica to accomplish that feat.