Grammy-winning Infamous Stringdusters bandmates Andy Falco (guitar) and Travis Book (upright bass) step out as a duo this fall to honor the timeless music of Jerry Garcia. “The project actually originated backstage at ’Dusters shows where Travis and I would typically warm up with some fun Jerry songs,” Falco recalls. “At some point we just thought it would be fun to do it in public.”

Dennis McNally’s The Last Great Dream (Da Capo, 2025) won’t help you recreate the 1960s – that ship has sailed. But McNally’s new book provides a clear-eyed, rear-view mirror exploration of the mid-20th century counterculture in the United States. From poetry to politics to psychedelic music, McNally covers a wide waterfront; The Last Great Dream is a wild ride full of factoids and true folk tales from far and wide. It’s a fun and informative read for anyone intrigued by the era. In certain circles, Dennis McNally is best known as the Grateful Dead publicist from the mid-1980s until several years after Jerry Garcia died. He’s also a published historian, with books under his belt about Jack Kerouac, the Grateful Dead, and the evolution of American culture.

Boulder Theater will be awash in vintage Hammond tones and cosmic grooves this Halloween weekend when Melvin Seals & JGB headline back-to-back nights on Friday, October 31, 2025, and Saturday, November 1, 2025. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; the show begins at 8:00 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 13 at 10 a.m. MT at Z2 Entertainment.

Today, the Grateful Guitars Foundation (GGF) announces that they will present Oteil Burbridge with a Doug-Irwin Certified “Dire Wolf” bass by luthier Bill Asher at the AEG + 97.3 KBCO Present Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on July 6. In addition to Burbridge, the event will feature appearances from Melvin Seals, Jacklyn LaBranch, Tom Hamilton, Duane Trucks and Lady Chi.

When classically trained pianist Kristina Marinova boards the psychedelic bus, she brings nothing but a grand piano—and proves that’s all she needs. Out June 6, 2025 on Navona Records, THE BUS CAME BY AND I GOT ON transforms eleven cornerstones of the Grateful Dead canon into a cinematic solo-piano experience that mirrors the arc of an early-’70s Dead show, complete with exploratory segues and encore-worthy fireworks.

Portland’s favorite Grateful Dead tribute outfit, Caught Dead Handed, returns to the lush vineyards of Redgate Winery on Friday, June 14, for a free, all-ages (21+) evening of blazing hot jams. From 6:00 to 9:00 PM, the band will transport guests on a psych-folk journey through the Dead’s most beloved anthems, perfectly paired with Redgate’s award-winning wines and the rolling hills of Independence, Oregon.

Well, that was a heck of a crazy, crazy night at the majestic Mishawaka Amphitheatre. Sages and Spirits brought fire down from the mountaintops with an incredible evening of music to soothe every magical soul nestled beneath the star-filled sky. What a fantastic setting for these talented musicians to recreate and innovate the music of the good ol’ Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band. The bond between the band members was powerful and purposeful.

Defying conventional tribute-band boundaries, Grateful Shred delivers their first studio statement, Might As Well, out today via their Liberty Hair Farm Records imprint. The album resurrects eight Grateful Dead compositions that never received formal studio treatments, reengineering them through Shred’s lens of sun-bleached harmonies and freewheeling improvisation. Featuring vocals from acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Mikaela Davis, the project transforms archival blueprints into an indie-Americana odyssey.

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Mason’s Children, the California–based quintet devoted exclusively to the primal, free-wheeling era of Grateful Dead music from 1966 to 1972, will barrel up and down the Eastern seaboard this summer on a whirlwind seven-show trek they’ve dubbed the “Great Northeast Cannonball Run.” Known for channeling the Dead’s early psychedelic edge, the band leans into the quake-inducing jams of Viola Lee Blues, the shuffle of Big Railroad Blues, and the shimmering vocal blends