About Garcia Birthday Band
Good ol' Grateful Dead
Garcia Birthday Band, based in Portland Oregon, isn't your
mother's Grateful Dead cover band. Playing for over 20 years, GBB has evolved
into something far deeper than the sum of its parts. The beating heart of the
Pacific Northwest's GD community, the band's ever-expanding fanbase is an
experience unto themselves. Using the Dead's repertoire as a springboard for
limitless potential and improvisation, Garcia Birthday Band are a cornerstone
of the modern Grateful Dead universe, and their fans have come to expect the
unexpected as the norm.
Placing no boundaries on eras of the Dead's career or catalog, and drawing on
decades of individual and shared experience, GBB play the music through an
auditory kaleidoscope. Composed of some of the most ace players of the Oregon
live music community, the band makes every show an act of exploration, both
musically and spiritually. United hearts and minds blur the line between the
stage and crowd - a carnival of human potential. If you're new to Garcia
Birthday Band, their doors are always open, and you'll recognize it as
something familiar when you first walk in: home.
You may recognize the fellas in GBB from acts such as Nine Days Wonder,
Cubensis, Shafty, Turkey Bouillon Mafia, The Campfire Boys, Deadhenge, Shadow
of Sound, The Buds of May, The Ike Willis Band, Dead Sessions, and Dark Matter
Transfer.
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