Jerry Garcia News

While following in the footsteps of the successful doesn't guarantee success, it provides a pretty good outline when forming your own strategies.

While the Grateful Dead's musical legacy remains reviled by hippie-hating hipsters and embraced by the legions of faithful cultists, there's no denying that the Bay Area jam band was decades ahead of the curve in terms of fan outreach, pioneering social media, and viral marketing well before those terms - or the Internet - even existed.

The Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration - a music event curated by the family of the late Grateful Dead leader and featuring singer-guitarist Warren Haynes - is coming to the Riverside Theater May 21. Haynes, formerly of the Allman Brothers Band the leader of Gov't Mule , will share the stage with a 43-piece orchestra, in a show promising hallmarks ... (more)

Christopher McKinney finds and maintains historic guitars for Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.

Our friends at Wax Poetic have been busy beavers putting together their reliable list of expected Record Store Day releases.

Born in 1819 to Quaker-leaning parents, native New Jerseyan Walt Whitman was a journalist, publisher, teacher, a nurse in the Civil War, a philosopher and poet.

Peter Rowan's Bluegrass Band, one of the headliners at this summer's Red Wing Roots Music Festival at Natural Chimneys, comes to the Valley Friday for a show at Court Square Theater in Harrisonburg.

Earlier today it was revealed that Devo guitarist Bob Casale died suddenly on Monday from health complications that led to heart failure.

As legend has it, Bob Weir met Jerry Garcia on New Year's Eve in Palo Alto in 1963.

In celebration of today's love-filled holiday, we here at JamBase have dug deep into the depths of the Grateful Dead's catalog to create the perfect Valentine's Day playlist for you and yours.