Mike Deaton is a performer, an experienced djembe and hand-drum teacher, and a facilitator of music for all experience levels. Mike has performed for thousands as part of Jim Donovan's Drum the Ecstatic and several other music groups. More information may be found at his website, Rhythm Playground.

His playing appears on Dan Easley's records solipschism and sundowning. As the third third of Easley and Deaton (the second third is the and), he can be heard on Pogo bonobo, and improvisationally accompanying Chad Gusler's spoken word on Chad's debut towndowner release, Torn Advertisements.