In honor of his birthday 79th birthday on Wednesday, Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann has announced the long-awaited first official video stream from his 2024 Mahalo Dead run in Hawaii, set to premiere on nugs on May 18th, 2025 as an exclusive for nugs All Access subscribers.
The three-night Mahalo Deadrun featured Kreutzmann alongside guitarists Daniel Donato (Cosmic Country) and Jake Brownstein (Eggy), bassist Reed Mathis (Billy & The Kids), keyboardist Adam MacDougall (Circles Around The Sun), percussionist Jason Hann (The String Cheese Incident), and vocalist Kanika Moore.
While multi-camera videos were captured of each night of Mahalo Dead, they have yet to be released or streamed. Now, fans will be able to watch the 11/23/24 show at Anainu Hou’s Porter Pavilion in full for the first time. Subscribe to nugs here to access the stream for no additional charge. [Note: Live For Live Music is a nugs affiliate. Ordering your subscription via the links on this page helps support our work covering the world of live music. Thank you for reading!]
Read a letter from Billy about the upcoming Mahalo Dead stream below. Scroll down to check out the pro-shot video of 11/23/24’s set two opener, “Just A Little Light”, which Kreutzmann shared today along with the announcement.
Aloha friends,
For my birthday four years ago, I flew my band Billy & the Kids along with Billy Strings to my island to jam with me in the midst of the pandemic and we livestreamed it and called it Grateful Mahalo. That’s not to be confused with Mahalo Dead, which is the band I put together to jam with me for Thanksgiving last year, as my way of giving thanks to my community. We played three sold-out nights at the Porter Pavilion, mere minutes from my home, and we spent a few days before that just having fun jamming, going to goat yoga, bonding by boating, eating delicious food, and celebrating the gift of simply being together. And in those moments, we got to experience life to the fullest.
So for my birthday this year, I’d like to extend that celebration to all of you. This is our community. This is our music. These are our songs. And they sound best when we can share them with each other.
Tune in to Nugs.net on May 18th for the premiere livestream of Mahalo Dead, recorded on 11/23/24 at Anainu Hou’s Porter Pavilion in Hawaii. I’ll be couch touring it right there with you!
I’m done blowing out the candles (there were a lot of them!), and I put up this YouTube video of the second set opener: “Just a Little Light.” Because we could all use some these days.
NFA,
Billy
Bill Kreutzmann / Mahalo Dead – “Just A Little Light” [Pro-Shot] – 11/23/24
