Skeleton Crewe

About the band

Skeleton Crewe

Skeleton Crewe formed in early 2024 as a five-piece of jam-scene veterans: Rob Barraco on keys (Dark Star Orchestra, Phil Lesh & Friends, The Dead), Barry Sless on pedal steel and guitar (Wolf Bros, David Nelson Band), Pete Sears on bass (Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna), Jay Lane on drums (Dead & Company, RatDog) and Grammy-nominated Hawaiian slack key guitarist Stephen Inglis, who has played with Bill Kreutzmann. Their sets mix original material — much of it Robert Hunter lyrics written with Barraco — with Grateful Dead interpretations and long improvisations that run from traditional Hawaiian playing to psychedelic Americana. The band was originally called Skeleton Krewe and changed the spelling to avoid a clash with a New Orleans marching band. They tour nationally in bursts, and the fall 2026 run takes them from Colorado and Texas up the East Coast and then out to the Pacific Northwest.

The venue

WOW Hall

291 W 8th Ave · Eugene, OR

Nonprofit, community-run hall in downtown Eugene in a 1932 Woodmen of the World lodge building on the National Register of Historic Places. Standing-room capacity about 600 with a well-known sprung wooden dance floor.