Check out Chris McHugh w/ Keith Urban during the CMA MUSIC FEST! This aired Sept 1st, on ABC. Chris is playing his Craviotto Solid Shell American Ash Drum Set: 15×24, 16×18, 16×16, 9×13 w/ 6.5×14 Craviotto/AK Diamond Series NOB Snare Drum!

Watch the above video to check-out Keith Prior’s solid feel behind his Craviotto Classic Series Maple Drum Set. 14×24, 16×16, 9×13 w/ 6.5×14 Craviotto/AK Copper Diamond Series Snare Drum. David Gray plays a few tunes in the above video.

David Gray is currently on tour! For tour dates and more info, please visit:

http://www.davidgray.com/tour/

Are you going to PASIC this year?

PASIC also features the International Drum and Percussion Expo, which includes over 115 percussion related manufacturers, publishers and organizations. They exhibit the latest instruments, sticks, mallets, accessories, music, and related products and services.

The nationally recognized PASIC Marching Percussion Festival also takes place during the convention. This indoor festival features a competition of high school and collegiate drumlines and solo performers vying for top honors.

Craviotto Custom Shop 3.5×14 Red Birch w/ Wood Hoops.

3.5×14 Red Birch + Maple Wood Hoops. 8-Lug /45′ edges.

This amazing drum was created by request for Craviotto artist Chris McHugh (Keith Urban).

Given its shallow depth, this red birch solid-shell snare drum provides a vast tuning window. Tuned-up higher for that tight n’ poppy crrrrack, or tuned lower for that looooose back-beat, this drum IS the ultimate side-snare!

*This custom shop snare drum is available by special order through your local authorized Craviotto Drum Company dealer. For more information, please call Craviotto Drum Company directly at 831-763-0855 or eMail Info@Craviottodrums.com

KIT OF THE MONTH: Craviotto Maple “Micro-Bop” Drum Set with 12×18 bass drum, 13×13 floor tom, 7.5×10 rack tom (w/rail mount), & 4.5×14 snare drum in Classic Black Galaxy Sparkle Lacquer finish.

Wanna hear it? Click the link!

Craviotto Black Galaxy Maple Micro-Bop Kit

These smaller sized drums, provide huge tone! Crank it up for jazz/bop situations, or tune it lower for your rock/R&B gigs… This little kit thumps!

Currently showcased @:

Maxwell’s Vintage & Custom Drum Shop, NYC.

723 7th Ave, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10019.

(212) 730-8138

Check out these video’s from this weekends 4th of July festivities at our nations capital! The Killers were invited to play at The White House/USO 4th of July Concert! Catch Ronnie Vannucci playing his Craviotto Solid Mahogany Drum Set! 16×24BD, 16×18FT, 16×16FT, 9×13FT & 6.5×14 NOB Diamond Series Snare Drum!

Craviotto Drum Company named 2010 “Custom Drum Maker Of The Year” by the readers of Drum! Magazine. July 1st 2010, the official DRUMMIES AWARDS were announced. “Thank you to all of the people and players who have supported my company and my drums throughout the years. Building solid shell drums is my passion, and it brings me great joy to see and hear the enjoyment players create with my instruments.”
- Johnny C.

A big Craviotto congratulations to Shane Kinney and Drumcenter of Portsmouth on their 1st anniversary in business!

FIRST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

JUNE 12th, 2010 (10pm-5pm)

Join DCP on Saturday, June 12 as they celebrate DCP’s first full year in business. You could even call it their first anniversary!

DCP will be serving FREE BBQ from Mojo’s BBQ and providing non-alcoholic beverages to quench your thirst. Of course, what would an anniversary sale be without some sort of crazy sale and product specials? Rest assured, DCP will have many items priced much lower than they are allowed to advertise.

If a FREE BBQ and a HUGE SALE are not enough to get you out of the house, DCP will also be holding a raffle for all that attend, including a Craviotto Unlimited Series Maple Snare Drum!!!!

It’s going to be a special day and all are welcome!

What: DCP 1st Anniversary Celebration
Where: The DCP Mothership – 800 Islington St #4, Portsmouth, NH
When: Saturday, June 12, 10am-5pm

20th annual Chicago Vintage & Custom Drum Show.

5/15- 5/16 2010.

For this years special show, Craviotto Drum Company raffled-off an entire Craviotto Solid Maple Drum Set with 6.5×14 Craviotto Custom Shop Cherry/Maple/Walnut “Hybrid” Snare Drum!!!!

The lucky winner was show attendee Jim Krutz! Congratulations Jim, and enjoy your new Craviotto drum set! Jim’s new kit included a Craviotto Solid Maple 14×20 bass drum, 14×14 floor tom, 8×12 & 7.5×10 rack tom + 6.5×14 Craviotto Custom Shop One-Ply Cherry/Maple/Walnut “Hybrid” Snare Drum! 

Rob Cook, Johnny Craviotto, and new Craviotto Drum Set owner Jim Krutz!

A big congratulations to Rob Cook on the success of 20 Chicago drum shows!

Let’s get ready for show #21!!!! May 21st & 22nd, 2011!

For more information on the Chicago Vintage & Custom Drum Show, please visit:

http://www.rebeats.com/

Craviotto Drum Company has some solid Artist News to share with everyone. Check it out!

5/20: Matt Chamberlain with Sarah Mclachlan on

Matt Chamberlain played a Craviotto Solid Mahogany Drum Set: 14×24, 16×16, 10×14, 5.5×14 on last Thursdays performance of Sarah Mclachlan’s new song “Loving You Is Easy”. Catch Matt Chamberlain w/ Sarah Mclachlan during the 2010 Lilith Fair. For complete tour info, please visit:

http://lilithfair.com/

5/20: Matt Wilson New York Times Review!!!! (By: Nate Chinen)

“Onstage, a Single Band, With a Split Personality”

(Photo By Brian Harkin for NY TIMES.)

“Matt Wilson unveiled an expanded version of his working group at Iridium on Wednesday night — or maybe it was two groups, depending on the whim of the moment. Near the end of the first set, it was possible to imagine a borderline across the stage, as half of the musicians played a Mozart string quartet and the other half gradually muscled in, urgent and bleary, with “What Reason Could I Give,” an enigmatic ballad by Ornette Coleman. The two halves were working at cross purposes, but with a playful air. 

Mr. Wilson, a jazz drummer constitutionally averse to pretension, has led his quartet since the mid-1990s, pushing an agenda of audacity, flexibility and friskiness. The band, with Jeff Lederer on saxophones, Kirk Knuffke on cornet and Chris Lightcap on bass, specializes in rugged, small-scale epiphanies, following up on the epic example of Mr. Coleman. This was the group’s first-ever performance with strings, and it felt brightly provisional, free of hang-ups about compatibility. It wasn’t stiff or overworked.

The set actually included two of Mr. Coleman’s themes: “What Reason Could I Give” melted into “Broken Shadows,” another piece from 1971. Both featured declarative guest vocals by Mary LaRose and a calmly burbling churn in the rhythm section. Mr. Wilson dedicated these songs to the saxophonist Dewey Redman, a former mentor and a participant in the original recordings; Mr. Redman, who died in 2006, also lurked in the DNA of “The Gathering Call,” a springy set opener with an abrupt, ascending melody. 

This was all courting heady abstraction, but Mr. Wilson and his band mates have a way of pushing through brambles with exuberance. (That tendency hasn’t gone unnoticed: in a couple of weeks, they will appear on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People series, in a pair of concerts gamely titled “What Is Free Jazz?”) Within the band’s expressive mode, its front line modeled a handy contrast. Mr. Lederer was woollier, more guttural, a compendium of wheezes, honks and squeals; Mr. Knuffke took a deliberate path, with elliptical phrases and a coolly understated tone.

The string quartet — Nicole Federici on viola, Alisa Horn on cello and Skye Steele and Felicia Wilson, Mr. Wilson’s wife, on violin — flickered around the margins, playing interludes or accents mostly arranged by Mr. Lederer. On “Some Assembly Required,” a klezmerlike romp, and “If I Were a Boy,” a Beyoncé cover, Mr. Steele doubled the main melodic line, sighing or plucking, while the others lent background accompaniment.

Behind everything was Mr. Wilson’s smartly skittering pulse, along with his rummaging sense of invention. At one point he stood up to lead his quartet in a mock-ceremonial prelude, ringing toy hand-bells; later he recited “Bubbles,” a Carl Sandburg poem, with a goofy sincerity. And before plunging into the final tune, a soulful shuffle repurposed for the hybrid ensemble, he joked that its title could apply to jazz and classical music. It was “Cats and Dogs Living Together,” a giddy highlight of the set. ”

5/23:  Jerry Roe with  Julianne Hough Tour Sizzle 2010

Craviotto Artist Jerry Roe is currently on tour with Julianne Hough. Jerry is currently playing a Craviotto Custom Shop One-Ply Cherry/Walnut “Hybrid” Drum Set: 14×24, 16×18, 16×16, 9×13 + 6.5×14 Snare Drum. Check it out!

Catch Jerry Roe with Julianne Hough at a town near you!

http://juliannehough.com/