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Dead tour ticket info announced

From GDTS TOO: Happy New Year! The Dead, featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti, will play the following shows: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. Reserved seats are available at $93.00, $69.00 and $53.50 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $72.00 per ticket. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Showtime is 7:00 PM. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA. Reserved seats are available at $79.00 and $49.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Friday, April 17, 2009 at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY. Reserved seats are available at $100.00 and $60.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Saturday & Sunday, April 18 & 19, 2009 at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA. Reserved seats are available at $100.25 and $69.00. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY. Reserved seats are available at $100.50 and $60.50 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and $73.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Friday, April 24, 2009 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $57.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. Reserved seats are available @ $103.50 and $58.50 per ticket. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Sunday, April 26, 2009 at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $72.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday & Wednesday, April 28 & 29, 2009 at The IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $57.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Friday and Saturday, May 1 & 2, 2009 at Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and $69.00 Reserved. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at All State Arena in Chicago, IL. Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and $54.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO. Reserved seats are available at $98.50 and $63.50. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Saturday, May 9, 2009 at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA. Reserved seats are available at $89.00 Reserved and $53.50 Reserved. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Sunday, May 10, 2009 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. Reserved seats are available at $105.00 Reserved and $45.00 Lawn. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. The only mail in dates for these performances are January 13, 2009 through January 20, 2009. Orders will be filled on a first come, first serve basis by postmark, not when we receive them. Please do not mail in before January 13th as your order will be disqualified. 4 ticket limit per person per show. Taper tickets will be available for all shows on the tour except for Shoreline Amphitheatre where taping will be permitted on the lawn.Taper tickets are available at the higher ticket price for each venue. Taper tickets are limited to 2 per person per show. To reduce our carbon footprint our new address to mail in for this tour is: GDTS TOO P.O. Box 456 Stinson Beach, CA 94970 ————————————————————— Our mail order instructions can be found at gdtstoo.com ————————————————————— Tickets for Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge & Scott Murawski in February are available. Please check our website for details. ————————————————————— The crew of GDTS TOO January 9, 2009 “I’m coming back baby, baby I’m coming home I’m coming back baby, baby I’m coming home The way I love you darling You’ve got to, got to know” Ron McKernan

American Beauty Project in NYC 1/16

From the Lincoln Center web site:

The American Beauty Project: The Music of the Grateful Dead
Friday, January 16, 2009 8:30 PM
The Allen Room
American Songbook

“Even in their absence, the Grateful Dead can pack a hall.” — The New York Times

Two of the Grateful Dead’s most defining studio albums, Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, are performed in their entirety by a collection of outstanding musicians including Ollabelle, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, Catherine Russell, and Jim Lauderdale.

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1060

Week of January 12, 2009

Part 1 14:26
Emory Joseph, Fennario: Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter
RAMBLE ON ROSE
Donna Jean and the Tricksters
NO BETTER WAY
Grateful Dead, Birth of the Dead
THE ONLY TIME IS NOW

Part 2 41:59
Grateful Dead 7/13/89 RFK Stadium, Washington DC
HELL IN A BUCKET
COLD RAIN AND SNOW
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
TENNESSEE JED
STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN

Bruce Hornsby and the Range opened this 7/13/89 show, and Hornsby joined the Dead on accordion for “Tennessee Jed” and “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.”

MK = A-OK

This just in from Maile Hatfield, wife of Mark Karan:

Just wanted to share the joy… Mark has just gotten the results of his latest MRI.. ALL CLEAR!!! That’s one year now… and we’re grateful every day.

Now on with the music!!!!!

He’ll be performing with RatDog in Jamaica later this month, then working to finish his album this spring, and we’ll tell you shortly about a few special events!