Canadian Beauty

Canadian Beauty are a Victoria, BC band who play a different catalogue each time out — the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Dylan, The Band, the Allman Brothers, Gram Parsons — and have been doing the Dead nights longest, by their own account for more than twenty years. They are improvisers rather than copyists: the setlist changes every show and the songs get their stamp rather than a note-for-note reading. Their Dead nights at the Coda, including the New Year's bash, are the ones listed here; the Neil Young birthday shows and the rest are not.