Today, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band—featuring guitarists Ross James and Grahame Lesh, multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby, and drummer Alex Koford—announced that they’d be performing a pair of shows next February to commemorate the anniversary of two stand-out Grateful Dead shows at the very same venue half-a-century prior. These shows will honor the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s own performances at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, on February 2nd and 3rd of 1968, falling exactly fifty years later on February 2nd and 3rd of 2018.
Phil Lesh’s 10/30 & 10/31 Shows With Nicki Bluhm, Robert Randolph, And More To Be Webcast
Tickets for Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band’s upcoming run at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom go on sale on Friday, October 20th. You can also take a listen to the audio from the Grateful Dead’s original shows back in 1968 to get stoked on these upcoming 50th-anniversary performances.
February 2nd, 1968
[Audio: Julian (Jools) Elliott]
February 3rd, 1968
[Audio: Charlie Miller]
[Photo: Dave Vann]