Article (with a lovely photo) in today’s San Francisco Chronicle:
Donna Jean Godchaux grateful to sing again
Godchaux-Mackay dropped out of music entirely after she left the Dead and only made her first, tentative steps back into the field after her children were grown. “I was very inspired,” she says. “I started writing again. It was time.”
She first met the Tricksters at a New York concert on the 10th anniversary of the death of Jerry Garcia. “I was really impressed with their musicality,” she says, “and also what great people they were.”
She was also pleased to note the band had moved beyond being merely a Grateful Dead cover act and the band’s songwriters developed some strong original material of their own. “By the end of that event,” she says, “we were talking about hooking up and playing a few gigs.”
Donna Jean and the Tricksters have three gigs in the Bay Area this week:
Wed., 6.4.08, 9pm: 12 GALAXIES, 2565 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Thurs., 6.5.08 9pm: MOE’S ALLEY, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95065
Fri., 6.6.08, 9pm: SWEETWATER STATION ON MAGNOLIA, 500 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, CA 94939