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Internationally touring purveyors of psychedelic funk, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, top a list of 19 bands added to the 13th annual Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival lineup, festival organizers announced today. These additions finalize the band lineup for the multi-genre, family-friendly festival which will take place May 25-28, 2023 at Pop’s Farm in Martinsville, Va.

Gulf Coast Records announces the signing of acclaimed St. Petersburg-based Backtrack Blues Band and will release their label debut, A Day by the Bay, on April 14th.

First released in November 1980, “The Turn Of A Friendly Card” was the fifth album by The Alan Parsons Project, the brainchild of composer, musician and manager Eric Woolfson and celebrated producer and engineer Alan Parsons.

Willie Nelson was awarded “Best Country Solo Performance” for his rendition of Billy Joe Shaver’s “Live Forever” at last night’s 65th Annual Grammy Awards. The song is the opening track of the critically acclaimed album Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver which was released last year on New West Records & Pedernales Records.

Three-time GRAMMY-nominated guitarist and 25x Billboard chart-topper Joe Bonamassa has announced the return of the summer’s biggest rock & roll event with “Keeping the Blues Alive presents: Joe Bonamassa & Friends,” featuring special guests Styx and Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles. The special two-night performance run will stop at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater on Saturday, August 12th and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Sunday, August 13th. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, February 10th at 10am EST.

STU and the crew return with an unforgettable, electrifying take on the Bob Dylan Songbook with GHOSTS OF ELECTRICITY making a rare appearance for an early Sunday Funday dinner show on March 5th at Hopmonk Sebastopol. Featuring an amazing lineup: Stu Allen, Mark Karan, Greg Anton, Mookie Siegel and JP McLean. Outside under a heated tent, great food & drink.

Starting on Monday March 6th, Rinah Ramos brings live Dead and more to The Tradewinds in Cotati with BETTER OFF DEAD MONDAYS, a new live music event planned for every other Monday. The inaugural show on 3/6 features a killer lineup with John Chi, Scott Guberman, JP McClean & Anna Elva. Tradewinds is a chill community gathering place with cheap drinks and kind peeps. Come out out and boogie every other Monday at Tradewinds!

NO FOOLIN— The Skull & Roses Bay Area Warm-Up weekend continues on Saturday April 1st as CUBENSIS & THE ALLIGATORS make their way to Hopmonk Sebastopol for the one more Saturday night of good ol’ Grateful Dead to melt your worries away, put a smile on your face and then steal it right off your head.

NorCal Favorites LOVIN' DEAD are back for another round at Toot's Tavern in charming Crockett on the Carquinez on Fri March 10th. Havin' fun and playing live Dead is what Lovin' Dead does best, striving to provide a unique yet familiar musical experience. The fellas are students of the songs, exploring interactive psychedelic jams, smokin' guitar work, soulful three-part vocal harmonies & always Searching for the Sound.

Here is a show worth planning a romantic road trip for! A rare appearance of LIKE A ROSE, performing the music of the Jerry Garcia Band with Heart & Soul! This exciting new supergroup features familiar faces from Melvin Seals & JGB, The Dead 70's, and Lovin' Dead. Like A Rose brings that Gospel sound with three part harmonies to lift your spirits and open your heart. With opening set by red-hot band WOLF JETT that will make you dance, sing and howl.

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