Shakedown Street Brings Grateful Dead Catalog to Gothic Theatre

Colorado’s long-running Grateful Dead torchbearers are headed back to South Broadway. On Friday, January 30, 2026, Shakedown Street returns to the historic Gothic Theatre for a night of improvisational live music drawn from one of the most beloved catalogs in American rock ’n’ roll.

For over 30 years, Shakedown Street has been performing the immense songbook of the Grateful Dead. The band’s ever-shifting repertoire draws from homegrown idioms steeped in traditional Americana, folk, blues, jazz, and rock and roll, with a healthy dose of the avant-garde. Dig deeper into the songs, their storylines, and the characters inhabiting them, and you’ll find enduring tales of murder and intrigue, gamblers and thieves, sinners and saints—tales of everyman, mythic and surreal—blue-collar rhapsodies in a kaleidoscopic tapestry awash in color, sound, and light.

Shakedown Street continues to play to enthusiastic, often sold-out audiences while “marching up and down, going around and around” their beloved home in the mountains of Colorado. The band happily finds itself in the trusted role of connecting past, present, and future Grateful Dead fans with the vital and vibrant energies of improvisational live music—endlessly fun, exciting, dramatic, uplifting, and inspirational. Band and audience in concert. A reset for the soul.

In person (save on fees)
Tickets for the Gothic Theatre can also be purchased at venue box offices with a low flat fee (often $2.50 per ticket), including the Mission Ballroom, Ogden Theatre, Gothic Theatre, and Bluebird Theater box offices.

Box office hours
Mission Ballroom: Tues–Fri 12:00 PM–6:00 PM; Sat 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Ogden Theatre: Saturdays 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Gothic / Mission / Ogden / Bluebird: Also open 1 hour before doors on show nights