Live Dead & Brothers will tour the Eastern United States in spring 2026 in celebration of the early years of the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers Band [get tickets].
The Spring Trippin 2026 tour will feature bassist Berry Duane Oakley (son of ABB co-founder Berry Oakley), guitarists Les Dudek (heard on Brothers & Sisters) and Mark Karan (The Other Ones, RatDog), keyboardist Scott Guberman (Phil Lesh & Friends, Communion), drummer Pete Lavezzoli (Jazz Is Dead), and The Big Gabe, a.k.a. vocalist Gabe Woodside. Together, they will revisit the early and occasionally intertwined days of the Dead and Allman Brothers from 1969 to 1973.
Live Dead & Brothers’ 2026 spring tour will kick off on April 23rd in Northampton, MA, followed by a string of Northeastern dates in Shirley, MA (4/24), North Haven, CT (4/25), Jersey City, NJ (4/30), Jim Thorpe, PA (5/1), and Washington, D.C. (5/2). The band will then swing through the Southeast and Midwest, making stops in Winchester, VA (5/3), Louisville (5/5), Cincinnati (5/6), Asheville, NC (5/8), and Raleigh (5/9), before wrapping at the Charleston Pour House in South Carolina on May 10th. A flier for the tour states, “more shows on the way!”
In celebration of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, Live Dead & Brothers will honor the influence the Acid Tests had on the Dead. The band will “add special ACID TEST ‘TESTs'” to their setlists, “jamming above historic 1965 Merry Prankster spoken word whilst adding songs performed by The Warlocks in their ‘becoming Grateful Dead.’”
Find tickets for Live Dead & Brothers here and see below for a detailed list of tour dates. This year saw the band go on tour with special guest (and occasional Jerry Garcia ringer) Steve Kimock. Click here to check out a review of their two-night run in Portland, OR, from back in July with photos and videos.
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