Jackie LaBranch

The Garcia Project is excited to return to California to perform shows at Club Fox! Featuring very special guests, Jacklyn Labranch, long time bandmate of Jerry Garcia’s, from 1983-1995, on March 16; and Maria Muldaur and Buzz Buchanan from the 1977-78 Jerry Garcia Band, on March 17.

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Jacklyn Labranch sang with Jerry Garcia in the Jerry Garcia Band from 1982 through 1995. The Garcia Project is pleased to announce that Jackie will join The Garcia Project’s Kat Walkerson and Mik Bondy on vocals for two special shows during The Garcia Project’s 2022 ”Days Between” tour. This tour is honoring the legacy of Jerry Garcia who was born on August 1, 1942 and passed away on August 9, 1995. Jerry Garcia would have been 80 years old this year.

Jerry Garcia’s 80th birthday celebration was celebrated a little bit early last night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Some birthdays are just too big, so when the stars align you just do it. Jerry was born on August 1st, 1942, and sadly departed planet earth on August 9th, 1995. He will always live in our hearts, minds and souls. Jerry was a beacon of light and inspiration moving brightly through our lives.

A new album is being produced by Maria Muldaur and The Garcia Project and will be a collection of spiritual songs that Jerry Garcia performed throughout his life. The artists on the SPIRIT album will include...

Last weekend, the historic Warfield in San Francisco hosted a special two nights in honor of the life and legacy of Jerry Garcia. It is fitting, as the storied 86-year old theater hosted Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band dozens of times and continued to book acts that bring an adventurous music spirit. One of the beloved guitarist and bandleader’s closest collaborators outside of Grateful Dead was organist Melvin Seals.

Last Saturday, Melvin Seals & JGB continued a now-tradition established in the last couple years of playing the legendary Warfield Theatre in Downtown San Francisco.

The air was crackling with energy last Saturday night as fans piled into The Warfield to witness a tribute to hometown hero Jerry Garcia. The significance of the venue was certainly not lost on the audience, smiles abounding through the crowd on the floor of the theater, which provided a home-base for the Jerry Garcia Band in the 1980s and 90s. Garcia performed at the hallowed venue 88 times, and the memories of countless transcendent nights of music have seeped into the bones of the old theater.

For the fans of the Grateful Dead most saw the time they spent as shows as an escape from reality, a dojo where the realms of the ordinary and the everyday vanished. The counterculture that surrounded that band was not only based on the years of memories captured in the hearts of millions, but like church, a Deadhead could truly have a mind-left-body experience and be closer to their spiritual selves.

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