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Summer is here, and with it comes festival season. This year’s lineup included the re-emergence of an old favorite: the All Good Now Music Festival. After a ten-year break, the festival returned with Sound Tribe Sector 9 headlining and Lotus opening the pre-party at The Anthem in Washington, D.C.
Spafford kicked off their summer tour with an electric performance at the Arrow @ Archer Music Hall in Allentown, an exclusive and intimate companion stage for the brand-new Archer Music Hall. The evening was a testament to the band’s improvisational prowess, crafting an experience that felt both expansive and deeply personal.
Bertha brought all the glitz, glamour, and Grateful Dead grooves to the Mishawaka Amphitheatre last night. Bertha is a Grateful Dead drag tribute band way beyond description; they have improvisational psychedelic musical skills that would make Jerry smile—and probably blush a little, too.
Last weekend, the Connecticut-based jam thrill ride known as Goose doled out two solid nights of high energy and creativity to the Colorado Front Range. Making their way back to Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre outside of Denver nearly one year after their debut run at the venue, the slimmed-down quartet brought everything fans have come to expect and more.
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.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters began their musical journey in the state of Colorado, and now, forty years later, the band and their fans are celebrating this magical musical milestone with an expansive 40th Anniversary Tour, including two shows at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, this past weekend. The band first played at Red Rocks as part of The Blues on the Rocks Festival in 1991 and have played the iconic venue countless times since.
It was an unusually cold, windy day on June 4 at the Vina Robles Amphitheatre in Paso Robles, California—but that did not deter Leon Bridges fans from packing the beautiful venue the moment the gates opened. Concertgoers were treated to a surprisingly enjoyable opening set by LA LOM.
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.
On a spectacular late-spring evening—May 29—Jason Bonham and his band flooded the Vina Robles Amphitheatre with the timeless sounds of Led Zeppelin. Fans arrived early for just the second concert of what is shaping up to be the venue’s busiest season yet, as Nederlander expands its 2025 schedule.
It wasn’t your typical night at Boston's Symphony Hall. Last evening, beneath the elegantly vaulted ceilings and behind those plush velvet curtains, the Boston Pops Orchestra joined forces with a hand-picked crew of musical veterans, weaving a kaleidoscopic journey through the songbook of Jerry Garcia. Imagine the refined atmosphere, suddenly inhabited by the wandering ghosts of the Haight, conjured masterfully by the dexterous fingers of Tom Hamilton, gripping Jerry's own Travis Bean TB500 guitar (#11, no less).
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