Nate Gross Band

Nate Gross is an award-winning blues guitarist and singer-songwriter based in the Norwich/Oxford area of Central New York, with about twenty years in the Central NY and Northeast Pennsylvania blues and roots scenes and two consecutive Syracuse Area Music Awards for Best Blues Recording. The Nate Gross Band's own book is blues, rock and soul, and he has shared stages with Levon Helm, Dickey Betts, Walter Trout and Shemekia Copeland. His Dead connection is a separate standing show he built a few years ago called Blues Is Dead: A Celebration of the Blues Music by The Grateful Dead, in which he and collaborators play the blues numbers the Dead carried in their sets. That show got a strong enough response that he took it on a limited tour after three years of requests. Funk 'n Waffles in Syracuse books both the straight band and the Dead show, sometimes on the same bill.