Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1231
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: Bonhams Auctioneers, presenting Visions of Garcia, their third auction devoted to the Grateful Dead. The May 8th auction will offer guitars, equipment, photographs and memorabilia related to the band, as well as original art works and clothing and accessory designs by Jerry Garcia. The sale goes on the block in San Francisco on May 8th, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s infamous concert at Barton Hall at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. More information and the complete online catalog for the auction are available at Bonhams.com The Werks, presenting their self-titled studio album, nine tracks in a wide variety of genres from upbeat jamtronica to rootsy guitar-driven jams. The Werks perform nationwide this summer and end the season with their own Werk Out Festival at Legend Valley in Central Ohio September 20-23. More festival and band information along with sample tracks from The Werks’ new album are available at www.thewerksmusic.com. Special thanks to Rock Mitzvah
Sycamore Slough @ TRI Studios 4/26
Sycamore Slough String Band performs live at TRI Studios Thursday, April 26 at 7pm Pacific time. FREE webcast!
Sycamore Slough String Band is an acoustic quartet founded on a mutual love of Grateful Dead music. Instigator David Gans had the brilliant idea of holding the band’s first rehearsals in a recording studio in order to capture the magic that everyone knew would transpire. The song list has already jumped the fence into other works, but the repertoire will remain Dead-centric for the most part. The Dead’s “concerted sense of quest” informs SSSB’s musical interactions, and a powerful vocal ensemble rides high atop those grooves. First Rehearsals is a little rough around the edges, as first rehearsals tend to be, but the ground has been broken on what is already proving to be a fertile and fruitful musical collaboration.
David Gans – guitar and vocals
David Thom – mandolin, guitar and vocals
Fiddle Dave Muhlethaler – fiddle, mandolin and vocals
Roger Sideman – bass
YouTube clips:
New Speedway Boogie
Jackaroe
DG and Garrin play the Freight on June 7
Thursday, June 7, 8pm: David Gans and Garrin Benfield at the Freight and Salvage, 202 Addison Street, Berkeley CA. Advance tickets are available.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1230
Week of April 16, 2012
Part 1 29:05
Grateful Dead 3/26/73 Civic Center, Baltimore MD
JAM->
WEATHER REPORT PRELUDE->
WHARF RAT->
ME AND BOBBY McGEE
Part 2 26:51
Grateful Dead, Dave’s Picks volume 2 (7/31/74 Dillon Stadium, Hartford CT)
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER->
I KNOW YOU RIDER
Band of Heathens, The Double Down Dead EP
MR CHARLIE
BROKEDOWN PALACE
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Fathom Events, presenting the second annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies at select movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, April 19 at 7:00 pm local time. This year’s Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies will screen the Dead’s unreleased July 18, 1989 concert at Alpine Valley, featuring the complete concert – more than two and a half hours of music. More information, a list of participating theaters and tickets are available at fathomevents.com.
Special thanks to Rock Mitzvah
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1229
Week of April 9, 2012
Part 1 23:01
Grateful Dead 7/18/89 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy WI
BIRD SONG->
PROMISED LAND
Grateful Dead, Dave’s Picks vol 2 (7/31/74)
BIG RIVER
Part 2 32:22
Grateful Dead 3/26/73 Civic Center, Baltimore MD
ME AND MY UNCLE
HE’S GONE->
TRUCKIN’->
JAM
“Bird Song” and “Promised Land” are from the Grateful Dead concert that will be shown in theaters from coast to coast on April 19, an event they’re calling The Second Annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies.
There’s an excellent gallery of photos from 7/31/74 here.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
Fathom Events, presenting the second annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies at select movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, April 19 at 7:00 pm local time. This year’s Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies will screen the Dead’s unreleased July 18, 1989 concert at Alpine Valley, featuring the complete concert – more than two and a half hours of music. More information, a list of participating theaters and tickets are available at fathomevents.com.
Live Nation, presenting the Peach Music Festival August 10 through 12 at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania featuring two nights of the Allman Brothers Band, Zac Brown Band, Warren Haynes Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, O.A.R., Railroad Earth, Dark Star Orchestra, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, The Wailers, Toubab Krewe and many more. Tickets and details are available at ThePeachMusicFestival.com.
Special thanks to Rock Mitzvah