Dead to the Core: An Acoustic Celebration of the Grateful Dead
Schedule
Fri Oct 07 2022 at 08:00 pm
Location
May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society | Syracuse, NY
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Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians with a shared love of the Grateful Dead. Musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers leads the tribute.In intimate concerts, the musicians celebrate the band’s music not through note-for-note re-creations but by playing the songs their own way—letting them grow and evolve collaboratively in the true spirit of the Dead. Interspersed with the music are clips from Rodgers’ own interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in which they reflect on the roots and evolution of the music.
A Dead to the Core show is an experience unlike any other Grateful Dead tribute: a night of deeply personal performances that illuminate the masterful song craft of one of America’s most original bands.
Dead to the Core features Jefferson Hamer, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, and Brendan Gosson.
Jefferson Hamer is an internationally touring songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn. He performs with the Murphy Beds and Session Americana, and his guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Blue Heron Suite, nominated for a 2022 Grammy. Hamer’s Child Ballads album with Anaïs Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year.
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and author of a best-selling video series teaching his acoustic arrangements of classic Grateful Dead songs.
Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Rodgers’ bandmate and duo partner (as Pepper and Sassafras) is a singer-songwriter and versatile multi-instrumentalist on clarinet, flute, accordion, and guitar. She also plays in the alternative rock Starting Off Red.
Brendan Gosson is a fiddler and multi-instrumentalist who performs with the Buffalo-based roots band Folkfaces. He pursues bluegrass, old time, Celtic, Cajun, blues, gypsy jazz, and funk/fusion styles, and is also skilled with mandolin, banjo, and bass. He is an in-demand accompanist and has made notable guest appearances with the Crooked North, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Still Hand String Band, Dirty Blanket, the Blind Owl Band and more.
“Rodgers doesn’t tap the legion of dedicated Grateful Dead tribute artists for these concerts…. Instead, he seeks out songwriters and musicians who have developed their own voices and styles, though they are very much inspired by—and fans of—Garcia and the Dead.” -- Arts Fuse
“Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers sure can play the music—listen to his ‘Stella Blue’ and you’ll know what I mean.” -- Dennis McNally, author, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
http://deadtothecore.com
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Grants for Arts Subgrant Program, both administered by CNY Arts.
This project is also made possible through the support and generosity of our Folkus members.
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Where is it happening?
May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 E Genesee St,Syracuse,NY,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
USD 15 to USD 18
