Organ Fairchild has announced a special themed ten-date summer tour titled “Dead of Summer,” coming to Albany and Greenlawn at the end of July and early August.
Organ Fairchild created their first original music together in 2020. Jam scene mainstays Joe Bellanti, Corey Kertzie, and Dave Ruch met in 1983 as members of Buffalo Grateful Dead cover band Wild Knights, a group that still plays reunion shows. Their debut gig was just a month before the COVID shutdown, and since then the group has won NYS Musics’ March Madness, supported Anders Osborne and Jackie Greene, Andy Frasco & the U.N., Sophistafunk, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and more, and have each played with Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, Robbie Krieger (The Doors), Nels Cline, Tony Rice, moe., and more.
Fresh on the heels of a four-set appearance at last weekend’s Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, IL, the trio announced their “Dead of Summer” tour, featuring one set of the band’s award-winning original instrumental music followed by a full set of Grateful Dead songs performed funky organ-trio style. Band guitarist Dave Ruch said, “It’s been so much fun to take the parameters of our new organ trio format (no singing and no bass player!) and revisit some of our favorite Dead tunes. Fresh and funky is how it’s feeling, and the setlists will be unique each night!” The tour will hit Beau’s Bar in Greenlawn on July 29 and Lark Hall in Albany on Aug. 1.
Tickets go on sale here on June 5 at 10 a.m.
Dead of Summer Tour
July 28 The 8×10 Club, Baltimore MD
July 29 Beau’s Bar, Greenlawn NY
July 30 Weekend at Bertha’s Festival, Townsend DE
July 31 The Nest House Concerts, Ironia NJ
August 1 Lark Hall, Albany NY (Jerry Garcia’s birthday!)
August 2 ZenBarn, Waterbury Center VT
August 3 Orlando’s, Burlington VT
August 4 TBA
August 5 Bear’s Picnic Festival, Blain PA
August 6 Electric Haze, Worcester MA
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