- Date
- Saturday, November 7, 2026
- Started
- 1:00 PM EST
- Venue
- Heartwood SoundstageGainesville, FL
- Admission
- Not listed
About the band
Uncle John's Band
Clearwater, FL · since 1989
Uncle John's Band formed in Clearwater in 1989 and is the longest-running Grateful Dead tribute on Florida's west coast. For 24 years its Thursday nights at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa were church for the Tampa Bay faithful; the weekly Thursday now lives at Bayboro Brewing in St. Petersburg, with Skipper's on Fridays and Saturdays. The band — Michael Bortz and Dan DeGregory on drums, Michael Edwards on bass, Alan Gilman on lead guitar, Casey Otto on keys, and Rich Whiteley on rhythm guitar — has played thousands of hours of Dead music from Chicago to Key West and the whole Florida festival circuit: Gasparilla, Magnolia Fest, Orange Blossom Jamboree.
The venue
Heartwood Soundstage
619 S Main St · Gainesville, FL
Recording studio and concert venue on South Main Street in Gainesville with a roughly 200-seat indoor listening room and an outdoor stage that holds about 1,500. A regular stop for North Florida jam and roots acts.
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