jerry garcia band

As the Grateful Dead found themselves in between tours in the early summer of 1982, side projects were apparently the name of the game in order to stay musically limber. And a new music venue in South Fallsburg, NY was more than happy to…

Garcia Family Provisions has declared GarciaLive Volume 16 as its album of the month for February. This three-CD album features a three set show from Jerry Garcia Band's inaugural show at Madison Square Garden from November 15,1991, a show…

A new archival release from the estate of Jerry Garcia highlights a series of Fall 1989 shows taking place in Hartford, CT and Uniondale, NY. Dubbed "The Long Island Sound," the two shows recorded by John Cutler feature one set each night…

For Volume 16 of GarciaLive, the archival series looks back at the debut of Jerry Garcia Band at Madison Square Garden (MSG) on November 15, 1991. GarciaLive Volume 16 finds the world's most recorded musician in the world's most…

What is it about Upstate New York Winter's that make great music artists bring their multi-colored California concepts here to heat things up? Forty-one years ago today, Jerry Garcia Band came to be an act for the Lake Ontario sound at…

With divisions across the country on display through peaceful protest and violence, songs of unity and calm are not the first thought, but can provide an escape, even if briefly, giving pause amid the chaos in cities throughout the state…

For todays Jerry Sunday installment, we look back at the November 16, 1991 performance by Jerry Garcia Band at The Knickerbocker Arena (aka The Knick) in Albany. Now known as The Times Union Center, this show brought Deadheads back to…

Brooklyn Bowl was treated to a double bill on Friday, October 11 as George Porter Jr. and his trio opened for Melvin Seals and JGB featuring John Kadlecik. Along with Michael Lemmler on keyboards and Terrence Houston on drums, the ageless…

On April 8, multi-instrumentalist and one-man jam band Keller Williams, hosted a night of tasteful jams and brought along a fancy new group of amazing musicians to the Westcott Theater in Syracuse. Adding Gibb Droll on acoustic guitar,…

Melvin Seals and the JGB stopped at the Putnam Den in Saratoga on March 12, during the middle of their spring tour. Playing for a packed house, they jammed through JGB classics that included "Roadrunner,Tough Mama, and The Harder They…