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His holiness the Dalai Lama, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds would come together to present to the audience a grand evening complete with music, compassion and conversation at Key arena located in Seattle. The date has been fixed at April 11, 2008. This is a benefit concert that is being held to celebrate the Seeds of Compassion event that would span across five days. The event would comprise interpersonal dialogues between the Dalai Lama, Dave Matthews and other artists on the importance of music in bridging racial, cultural and religious gaps. They would also discuss on how music is a universal language and how music actually unifies everybody cutting across race, gender and country differences. It is instrumental in creating global compassion. This discussion would be followed by the musical concert.

Through the Seeds of Compassion event, the artists would try to bring attention to the necessity of bringing forth compassion and kindness. The initiative begins with children and includes all those who are important in their lives. This five day event would be anchored by the Dalai Lama. The event would strive to create opportunities to build compassion through discussions and seminars, resource fair, workshops and a spirituality dialogue.

It is exactly South Africa which inspired Dave Matthews so much for music. However, Dave performed in this country quite rarely, and, perhaps, to the surprise of many, the guitarist’s final performance in 2007 took place in Gauteng, South Africa.  Is Dave planning to return back to South Africa? Will he perform there more often? Who knows… but it is quite typical for many stars to return back to the homeland after long years on the foreign land.

It is already the second time this year when for his live release, Dave Matthews rejoins his eponymous band for a “Green” concert in Atlanta. As usual, Matthews and his legendary band bring the energy of their live performance to over 50,000 fans. The concert features such loved singles as ‘So Much to Say’ and ‘Too Much,’ as well as Dave’s rarely played ‘#40′
- a short, romantic, usually-improvised ballad.

The Dave Matthews Band have finally released a live record entitled Live at Piedmont Park this week. The CD was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia this year. The show to support the CD is a kind of a benefit show, which is aimed at raising funds for a construction project to expand the park of the city of Atlanta. The DMB’s performance was attended by over 50,000 people and brought over a $1 million dollars.

DMB has not released any new albums for ages. They do not make music, and do not write songs. But why not sell your songs as ringtones for cell phones and get profits out of it? This is a good idea, especially for musicians who for this or that reason quitted their music career. That is what DMB is doing, and quite successfully.

Almost all of us own a cell phone these days and of course everyone wants to satisfy his little crazes to have ringtones playing songs of our favorite Dave Matthews Band! According to a recent Billboard The Dave Matthews Band are the latest high powered musicians to jump into the ringtone story. The band and managers had finally agreed soon after they found out more about the demand for their ringtones.

Fire destroyed the house of Dave Matthews Band bassist’s, Stefan Lessard, which is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and built in 2001. Luckily, Lessard and his son managed to escape from the house on fire unharmed. The fire started outside the cedar shake house and brought the damage worth of $880,000. According to the words of Lee Catlin, a spokeswoman for Albermarle Country, arson is not suspected.

DMB allows fans to record the majority of their live shows and permits not-for-profit trading of the recordings. Dave Matthews Band cites college students trading the tapes in the early ‘90s as a key reason for their fame. DMB and its management worked with the United States federal government in ‘96 to launch a crackdown on for-profit bootleggers. It resulted in numerous arrests of those responsible for illegally manufacturing and selling copies of Dave Matthews Band material

In late September 1994, Dave Matthews Band released their 1st album, entitled Under the Table and Dreaming. The LP featured their 1st commercial hits “Satellite,” “What Would You Say,” and “Ants Marching.” The record was dedicated “In memory of Anne” for Matthews’ elder sister Anne, who was killed by her own husband in 1994. Under the Table and Dreaming and the following release, called Crash brought the music group national attention, that culminated in a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song “So Much to Say.”

The Best of What’s Around Vol. 1 is the most recent hits compilation album by the Dave Matthews Band that was released in November 2006. The 2 CD set is the band’s 1st ever greatest hits album. It features 12 studio tracks on the 1st disc, as well as 8 previously unreleased live songs on the 2nd disc. Inside the CD case of Live Trax Vol. 6 there was an advertisement for The Best of What’s Around Vol. 1. The advertisement was incorrectly claiming that “Where Are You Going” was to be among the studio tracks appearing on disc 1, and that the compilation was to be released on November 6, but not November 7.