Bands

Jerry Garcia Band-inspired Americana, roots, R&B, gospel, and reggae.

New Brunswick, NJ

New Brunswick six-piece playing Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band across NJ and Staten Island.

Seattle, WA

Seattle psychedelic jam quartet born as a Jerry Garcia tribute and still anchored there.

Manitou Springs, CO

Southern Colorado's Jerry Garcia Band tribute, built by the founders of Shakedown Street.

Chagrin Falls, OH

Chagrin Falls acoustic act recreating real Dead setlists as psychedelic Americana.

Myrtle Beach, SC · since 2025

Mike Greene's Grand Strand acoustic trio, mixing Dead and Garcia Band with Dylan and the Allmans.

Asbury Park, NJ

Asbury Park's Jerry Garcia Band tribute, a Jersey Shore fixture.

Easthampton, MA · since 2014

Western Mass Dead and JGB band since 2014, danceable tunes plus jazzy improv, with rotating bassists.

St. Petersburg, FL · since 2017

Tampa Bay's Dead and JGB band since 2017, free shows most weekends.

Montclair, NJ · since 2015

Montclair string band exploring the life's work of Jerry Garcia.

Boston, MA

Jerry Garcia Band tribute out of Boston, MA.

Middletown, NJ

Mark Diomede and Dan Donovan's Taco Tuesday Dead night at the Olde Village Pub.

Wilmington, NC · since 2016

Dead and Jerry Garcia Band tunes rebuilt with funk, reggae and jazz flute, now based in Wilmington.

Two Infamous Stringdusters playing Jerry Garcia as an acoustic duo — solo, Dead and traditionals.

Lafayette, IN · since 2015

Lafayette, Indiana Dead tribute born in the band's 50th-anniversary summer, with a 1950s streak.

Asheville, NC

Asheville quartet that plays only the Garcia-sung side of the catalog, 150-plus songs deep.

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles band devoted to the Jerry Garcia Band repertoire.

Detroit, MI

Metro Detroit JGB tribute led by guitarist Matthew Cole, holding down second Thursdays at Bowlero.

Tampa, FL

A Tampa Bay outfit devoted strictly to Jerry Garcia's solo and Jerry Garcia Band repertoire.

Philadelphia, PA

A Philadelphia-area Jerry Garcia Band tribute chasing classic JGB grooves and deep cuts.

Tucson, AZ

A Tucson quartet playing the Jerry Garcia Band and Legion of Mary songbook rather than the Dead's.

San Francisco, CA

Hammond B-3 organist from the Jerry Garcia Band, carrying that book forward.

Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Garcia tribute run out of a West Mt. Airy compound, with Dead, JGB and Dylan in the sets.

Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh Jerry Garcia Band tribute named for a line in 'Reuben and Cerise'.

Portland, OR

Portland's tribute to Jerry Garcia, named for a Cats Under the Stars deep cut.

New Haven, CT

New Haven's classic-rock jam band, with the Dead and JGB at the center of the book.

Dallas, TX

Dallas crew playing the Jerry Garcia Band songbook, gospel backing vocals and all.

Worcester, MA · since 2017

Worcester five-piece digging through the whole Garcia solo book - JGB, Legion of Mary, Garcia & Saunders.

Los Angeles, CA

High-octane Dead and JGB from guitarist Marcus Rezak and a rotating all-star cast.

Lawrence, MA

Jerry Garcia Band tribute out of Lawrence, MA.

Austin, TX

Austin all-star lineup recreating the Jerry Garcia Band, drawn from Deadeye, The Watters and HeartByrne.

Springfield, IL · since 2013

Springfield's fast, funky Dead and Jerry Garcia Band dance party, running since 2013.

Detroit, MI

Detroit's tribute to Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, with a standing gig at the Cadieux Cafe.

Northampton, MA · since 2012

Complete Jerry Garcia Band setlists from 1976–1995, recreated night by night.

Chelsea, MI

A Washtenaw County band playing Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia classics on free-music nights.

Westport, CT · since 2023

Connecticut's Jerry Garcia Band project, formed in 2023.

Los Angeles, CA · since 2017

LA bluegrass band that grasses the Dead, JGB and Old & In the Way instead of imitating them.

Warwick, NY · since 2011

Warwick's funky-fried Dead — horn-section arrangements of the Garcia songbook.

Lancaster, PA

Lancaster PA band playing Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band, plus the odd non-Dead curveball.

Tempe, AZ · since 1994

Arizona's longest-running Dead band, going since 1994 and stocked with JGB players.

Denver, CO

Melvin Seals & JGB guitarist Dave Hebert's rotating-cast Garcia and Dead project.

Morrisville, PA

Lower Bucks County six-piece that has been jamming Dead and Garcia Band tunes for over 30 years.

Las Vegas, NV · since 2015

Las Vegas Dead and Garcia band with a running residency in the Tuscany's Copa Room.

Van Nuys, CA

San Fernando Valley outlaw jam band mixing Dead and JGB with Traffic and Phish.

Holmdel, NJ

Four Deadheads out of Holmdel playing the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band songbooks.

Washington, DC

DC-area all-star band devoted to Jerry Garcia, with the Jerry Garcia Band at its center.

Athens, GA · since 2012

Athens, Georgia crew playing only Jerry Garcia Band material — a cover band of a cover band.

Atlanta, GA

Atlanta songwriter Jon Harris's band recreating the Jerry Garcia Band.

Humboldt County quartet playing the Jerry Garcia Band and Legion of Mary book as a funky dance party.

Lincoln, NE

A rotating Plains-states Dead and JGB crew that tapes and posts nearly everything it plays.

Dead-and-JGB cover band seen at Scalia & Co. in Monroe, NY; little else is documented.

Bozeman, MT

Montana's Jerry Garcia Band tribute, recreating JGB setlists down to the Hammond B3 and Leslie.

Portland, ME

New England's Jerry Garcia Band tribute, built on three-part harmony and Hammond organ.

since 2024

All-star Dead project with Melvin Seals, John Kadlecik, Rob Eaton, Rob Barraco and Jay Lane.

Memphis, TN

Memphis band playing Dead, JGB, Old & In the Way, New Riders and the Byrds, free on Sunday afternoons.

Berkeley, CA

Stu Allen's Wednesday band at Ashkenaz, working the Jerry Garcia Band book with a revolving cast.

Newark, DE

A Newark, Delaware jam band splitting its sets between the Dead and Jerry Garcia.