Hey Now Friends! Happy December, hope you are warm and well. Mr. Hat here with the musical cure for your winter doldrums. Firstly, I am excited to invite you to the Grateful Brass & Grass New Year’s Eve Eve Party Fri 12/30! Get a jump on celebrating the New Year with GRATEFUL BRASS at Ivy Room East Bay, with opening set by Grateful Grass Duo.

Entrepreneur and founder Romeo Ussery is proud to announce the launch of his latest endeavor, Outside Live, a new events production and promotions group based in Sacramento and serving fans across Northern California. The new organization will kick 2023 with a brand new festival concept debuting in Sacramento called Estamos Vivos Carnival on Sunday, February 19.

JadeYoga, a division of Jade Industries, Inc, announced today its collaboration with the Grateful Dead.  Jade’s Grateful Dead collection will include its most popular Harmony™ mats, cork yoga blocks and cotton yoga straps featuring the iconic Grateful Dead dancing bears in yoga poses.

Greensky Bluegrass are thrilled to announce support for their upcoming 2023 winter tour.  They have announced six bands across 16 dates.  Says Anders Beck,  “traditionally, we have carried the same support band with us for entire tours, but this winter we are changing that model for the sake of mixing it up. There are so many great bands out there to share the road with and jam with... and for me the most exciting thing about this winter is all the different collaborations we will get to have on stage.”

The Los Angeles based rock trio, Fencer, have today announced their long awaited self-titled debut album, set to drop on February 3rd, 2023 via Blood Blast Distribution. This marks the band's first self-produced release, composed of 10-tracks and what is considered to be their most authentic work yet. Fans can pre-save the album here.

From the Raleigh opener to the three-night Halloween run at the Hollywood Bowl, 4K full-concert videos from Dead & Company's entire 2021 tour is now available to watch on-demand! The latest additions includes Oct 25th in Phoenix, and the Oct 29th & 30th shows in Los Angeles. There's now 90+ Dead & Company concert videos available to nugs.net subscribers to watch anytime.

On December 1st, 1973, a guitarist, a drummer, and their rhythm guitarist loaded their gear into the drummer’s Volkswagen bus and drove to Lane Hall at The University of Delaware. In a week that saw new albums by Wings, Black Sabbath, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the three-piece band proceeded to play covers that included ‘No Particular Place To Go,’ ‘Madison Blues’ and ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.’  The drummer, Jeff Simon, recalls the crowd was wary at first, “then it was like someone flipped a switch.” By the second set, the dance floor was packed.

Warren Haynes Presents: Christmas Jam has announced next weekend’s sold-out event will be available to livestream in gorgeous 4K on Volume.com. Tickets for the livestream include the main event on Saturday, December 10th at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville starting at 7pm ET/4pm PT as well as the pre-Jam on Friday, December 9th at The Orange Peel at 8pm ET/5pm PT for a one-night price of $29.99. Purchase tickets at xmasjam.volume.com.

This might be Rex Foundation's best auction yet! The first 10 items are live, with new items added daily. Auction closes this Saturday 12/3 at 10PM PT, so don't delay!

How to Register for the Auction:

1) Head to https://rexfillmore.givesmart.com

The BOWL FOR RONNIE Celebrity Bowling Party, benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund (www.diocancerfund.org), made a splashy post-pandemic return by attracting a sell-out crowd well in advance and bringing in over $72,000 for the music-based cancer charity. The November 17 event at PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California was the charity’s first public fund-raising event in three years.