Grateful Shred, the Los Angeles-based tribute project that takes a laid-back, harmony-driven approach to the Grateful Dead canon, have detailed a lengthy East Coast spring tour due to run from mid-April through mid-May of this year. The band features co-founders Dan Horne (bass) and Austin McCutchen (guitar/vocals) alongside Horne’s Circles Around The Sun bandmates Adam MacDougall (keys) and John Lee Shannon (guitar) as well as Zeph Ohora (guitar/vocals), Alex Koford (drums/vocals), and Austin Beede (drums).

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Grateful Shred went from busking on Shakedown to touring the nation in large part thanks to the popularity of a live video recorded in the parking lot of a Dead & Company show at Hollywood Bowl in 2017 in which the set eventually gets shut down by security. As McCutchen once said of the serendipitous “Busted at the Bowl” video, “We’ve been dealt some pretty good cards,” he states. “It’s been cool to roll with it and push forward and continually make stuff happen. Things have gone our way. Even that video happened magically. It was put together at the last minute, and boom!” The band has continued to grow and evolve since then, bringing in new members, mounting regular tours, and playing festivals around the country.

The 2025 Grateful Shred spring tour will take the band up and down the eastern United States. After beginning in Florida at the Sunshine Get Down Festival on April 12th, the band will continue on to shows in Pensacola, FL (4/13), New Orleans, LA (4/15), Birmingham, AL (4/16), and Chattanooga, TN (4/17). Next, the band will settle in at the new Skinny Dennis location in Nashville, TN for a three-night Shred 420 run on April 18th, 19th, and 20th. Revisit the highlights from the band’s 2024 Shred 420 event in Los Angeles below.

Grateful Shred – Shred 420 2024 – Los Angeles, CA – Official Highlight Video
 

From there, the group will jump up to Portland, ME (4/29) and work its way south again for stops in Fairfield, CT (5/1), the Philadelphia-area Ardmore, PA (5/2), Baltimore, MD (5/3), Raleigh, NC (5/4), Charlotte, NC (5/6), Knoxville, TN (5/7), Asheville, NC (5/8), and Atlanta, GA (5/9). The tour will finally close on May 10th and 11th with a two-night stint at Charleston, SC’s Pour House.

Pre-sale tickets for the Grateful Shred 2025 spring tour are available now via the band’s website. General on-sale will follow on Friday, January 31st. Check out the full tour itinerary below. Find ticketing information here.

 

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