Join us for two nights to celebrate the bluegrass journey of Jerry Garcia with a stellar lineup of artists paying tribute to the music icon:
Tickets cover all events for the entire weekend, including:
Additionally, food trucks will be on hand throughout the weekend at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, along with a pre-concert lounge every afternoon and evening before the concert events. All ticket holders will have the same seats for the weekend.
Tickets are $99 for the entire weekend. Plan your grateful weekend getaway with us and neighboring hotels on the riverfront in downtown Owensboro!
Schedule of Events:
10:00 am: Registration open and tours of the Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey Exhibit
2:00 pm: Jamming workshop - Bring your instruments and learn the art of extended bluegrass jams
3:30 pm: Festival Express (2003) film shown in Woodward Theatre
6:00 pm: Andy Falco & Travis Book play Jerry Garcia
7:15 pm: Fireside Collective presents Fireside on the Mountain with special guest Travis Book
8:30 pm: Sam Grisman Project
10:00 am: Tours of the Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey Exhibit
12:30 pm: Jamming workshop - Bring your instruments and learn the art of extended bluegrass jams
2:00 pm: The Grateful Dead Movie (1977) film shown in Woodward Theatre
6:00 pm: Andy Falco & Travis Book play Jerry Garcia
7:15 pm: Fireside Collective presents Fireside on the Mountain with special guest Travis Book
8:30 pm: Kitchen Dwellers with special guest Lindsay Lou
The Lineup:
In Dante's Inferno, the author grapples with sin, its various manifestations, and its consequences. This time ultimately traces a trajectory of self-realization, acceptance, and accountability. Kitchen Dwellers embark on a similar odyssey over the course of their fourth full-length offering, Seven Devils. The Montana quartet — Shawn Swain [Mandolin], Torrin Daniels [Banjo], Joe Funk [Upright Bass], and Max Davies [Acoustic Guitar] — thread together an immersive and inimitable conceptual arc inspired by Dante's Inferno and set to a soundtrack of folk-infused bluegrass spiked with psychedelic vision and rock energy.
Continuing their own journey as brothers, they deliver their most ambitious and anthemic body of work yet.
A Note From Sam-- The music that my father David Grisman and his close friend, Jerry Garcia, made in the early 90s (in the house that I grew up in) is not only some of the most timeless acoustic music ever recorded, it also triggers my oldest and fondest musical memories. What I find most inspiring about this material is the way their camaraderie and their love and joy for the music, simply oozes out of each recording. It is also impressive how deeply they get beneath their favorite songs—whether they are originals, covers or traditional/old time tunes—and how expertly that material was curated.
“If you like your bluegrass served with a little punch, attitude, grit and gravy, with that busking spirit that was so present and palpable in the early incarnations of Old Crow Medicine Show and made your realize that string band music could be so much more than fuddy-duddy reenactments by crusty ol’ relics, then the Damn Tall Buildings will slide in nice as a welcome edition to your listening rotation. Bluegrass at heart, but pulling from a wide range of influences including swing, ragtime, jazz, and even a hint of contemporary perspective in the songwriting, they offer virtually unmatched energy and enthusiasm, underpinned by intelligent songs that don’t skimp on the infectiousness...”
— Savingcountrymusic.com
The daughter of a coal-miner and millwright, and the granddaughter of a teacher-gone-Rainbow Gathering healer, Lou honed her honest and resonant style with her bluegrass-inspired band, Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, and Michigan supergroup, Sweet Water Warblers (Rachael Davis, May Erlewine), excavating elements of bluegrass, folk, Americana, and soulful pop for their emotional depths. Named among NPR’s “12 Best Live Performances” in 2015, Lou has long been beloved as a live performer, from Telluride Bluegrass Festival to Stagecoach, Celtic Connections to Australia’s National Folk Festival, and a “Can’t Miss Act” at AmericanaFest—not to mention acclaim from PBS, No Depression, Billboard, Holler, Paste, and The Bluegrass Situation, among other outlets.
Andy Falco and Travis Book are both members of the Grammy-award winning bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. Inspired by their love of the music of Jerry Garcia, the duo branches off on their own for occasional tours to celebrate Garcia’s timeless songs.“ The project actually originated back stage at ‘Dusters shows where Travis and I would typically warm up with some fun Jerry songs” Falco explains. “At some point we just thought it would be fun to do it in public."
They draw from Garcia’s solo material, his Grateful Dead catalogueas well as the Traditional songs Jerry loved to play.
Located next door to the Hall of Fame, The Hampton Inn & Suites Waterfront is the perfect option for accommodations when joining us for a concert! Enjoy sweeping riverfront views while staying with our hotel partner. When you bundle your tickets, the Hampton Inn offers discounted rates for your stay. The price includes two tickets to the concert, and the tickets are located in row H. You will receive your tickets at check-in with the hotel. Call the Hampton Inn directly at: 270-685-2005