Bands

Mill Valley, CA

Host of Grateful Thursdays at Club Fox and the free Dead at the Junction hangs.

Seattle, WA

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

Providence, RI · since 2024

Providence jam band on Dead, JGB and deep funk, with a first-Friday residency at Prudence in Bristol.

Los Angeles, CA · since 2023

Acoustic LA duo playing the Dead songbook straight, with a monthly residency at Culver City's Cinema Bar.

Portland, OR

A Portland band drawn from four generations of Deadheads, in steady rotation at McMenamins rooms.

Asbury Park, NJ

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

Boca Raton, FL · since 1990

South Florida's Grateful Dead band since Halloween 1990, playing every week.

Barrington, NJ

South Jersey Dead collective that uses the catalog as a launchpad, brewery by brewery.

Petaluma, CA · since 2022

Petaluma's Grateful Dead tribute, pitched at the late-'80s stadium sound and playing every week.

Middletown, NJ

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

San Diego, CA · since 1989

Grateful Dead every Monday at Winstons in Ocean Beach since 1992 — San Diego's longest club residency.

Columbus, OH

Columbus Dead project with a core band, a guest list, and a monthly open Super Jam.

Philadelphia, PA · since 2013

A Philadelphia deadgrass five-piece with dobro, field drum and a monthly Mermaid Inn residency.

Asheville, NC

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

Detroit, MI

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

Queens, NY

Astoria's neighborhood Dead band, at the Shillelagh Tavern and Culture Lab LIC.

Cocoa Beach, FL

Brevard's grooviest jam band — danceable Dead and more on the Space Coast, most nights of the week.

Marlborough, MA · since 2004

Former Dark Star Orchestra members' marathon two-set Dead shows, every Wednesday in Pembroke.

San Francisco, CA

San Francisco collective behind Grateful First Fridays on Haight Street.

Detroit, MI

Detroit-area quartet the Dead's own Dead Covers Project picked as its 2023 headliner.

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.

Sarasota, FL

Sarasota five-piece built on the Dead and Garcia, with a first-Sunday residency at Jungle Hideaway.

Delray Beach, FL

Delray Beach's Grateful Dead band, a Terra Fermata and Crazy Uncle Mike's regular.

San Rafael, CA

The Bay Area's house band for the Dead — deep jams and a fresh setlist every night.

Detroit, MI

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

Nashville, TN · since 2014

Nashville's Dead institution, holding down Grateful Monday at Acme Feed & Seed since 2014.

Clearwater, FL · since 1989

Florida's longest-running Dead tribute — Thursday-night church since 1989.

Miami, FL · since 2012

Miami's jazz-and-funk-leaning Dead band, monthly at Guanabanas.

East Providence, RI · since 2008

Rhode Island's long-running Dead tribute, with a monthly acoustic night in Johnston.

Lancaster, PA

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

New England seven-piece playing only primal Dead: 1965-72, Live/Dead through Europe '72.

St. Louis, MO · since 2016

St. Louis Dead band born from a one-off Jerry birthday party that never quite ended.

Brooklyn, NY · since 2023

Chris Mackin's rotating collective of New York jam players, resident at Brooklyn Bowl.

Las Vegas, NV · since 2015

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

Burlington, VT · since 1983

Burlington Dead band whose two founders have been at it since Boston in 1983.

St. Petersburg, FL

St. Pete players from Antelope, Morning Dew and Dead Set Florida mashing up the Dead, Phish and Panic.

Nantucket, MA · since 2024

Nantucket's Grateful Dead experience — harmony-minded Dead at Cisco Brewers and the Chicken Box.

Philadelphia, PA

Philly band that plays Dead tunes, reggae tunes, and Dead tunes turned reggae.

Nashville, TN

Nashville bluegrass band with a weekly Sunday residency splicing Dead tunes into its own material.

North Hollywood, CA

All-women San Fernando Valley Dead band behind the monthly Happy Hippy Chick Party at Canby's.

Prescott, AZ

A Prescott quartet that runs the Dead catalog through a Joe Russo's Almost Dead lens.

Minneapolis, MN · since 2011

Minneapolis lifers who have played Grateful Dead music every single Sunday since 2011, past show 750.

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.

Nashville, TN

Nashville group with a free weekly Wednesday Grateful Dead residency at Tennessee Brew Works.

New Smyrna Beach, FL

New Smyrna Beach Dead and jam covers act with a recurring free Sunday gig in Daytona.

Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh five-piece, Dead-heavy sets with Phish, Beatles and Dylan, two decades deep at Moondogs.