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.”