Cosmic Charlie: Acoustic + Electric with Aiken, Meade & Wegner

Aubrey Entertainment presents...

A rare EARLY EVENING concert featuring both acoustic & electric sets of Cosmic Charlie playing your favorite Grateful Dead tunes! There will also be a special opening set from Caroline Aiken w/ Trina Meade & Michael Wegner

• Doors at 6:00 PM, Music starts at 7:00 PM
• Under 18 0k with parent or guardian
• Venue is located at 295 E Dougherty Street in downtown Athens, GA on the grounds of Hotel Abacus
• Limited reserved table options available on the mezzanine level of the venue
• General admission tickets are $15 adv (+tax/fees), $20 DOS & at the Door
• Food & beverages must be ordered from the bar - no table service at the venue

Cosmic Charlie was born in the musical Mecca of Athens, Georgia. From its summer 1999 inception, the band has swiftly cemented its reputation as a band that puts a unique and personal twist on the Grateful Dead catalogue, a Dead cover band for folks that are ambivalent about Dead cover bands. Rather than mimicking the Dead exactly, Cosmic Charlie chooses to tap into the Dead’s energy and style as a foundation on which to build. The result is healthy balance of creativity and tradition, and both the band and its audience are taken to that familiar edge with the sense that, music is actually being MADE here tonight.

Moving and shaking even the most skeptical of Deadheads, Cosmic Charlie storms into a town and plays with an energy that eludes other bands, an energy that sometimes eluded the Dead themselves. Those precious moments during Dead jams when the synchronicity is there and all is right with the world, these are moments that Cosmic Charlie relishes and feverishly welcomes with open arms. Clearly, Cosmic Charlie’s audiences are also eager to arrive at those moments, and together with the band, they have indulged in many memorable evenings.

"Cosmic Charlie really is a great band - these guys do this music the way it should be done: having the conversation in their own voices.” -David Gans, Grateful Dead Hour

AIKEN, MEADE & WEGNER

Veteran performing songwriter Caroline Aiken has assembled a new trio, featuring vocalist Trina Meade and instrumentalist Michael Wegner.

Aiken, Meade and Wegner collectively have 100+ years of experience touring worldwide, sharing stages with the Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Franti and Ani DiFranco, just to name a few. The trio performs songs from their extensive collective repertoire, bringing lush vocal harmonies and an adventurous spirit to the music.

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