Hey Now Friends! Happy December, hope you are warm and well. Mr. Hat here with the musical cure for your winter doldrums. Firstly, I am excited to invite you to the Grateful Brass & Grass New Year’s Eve Eve Party Fri 12/30! Get a jump on celebrating the New Year with GRATEFUL BRASS at Ivy Room East Bay, with opening set by Grateful Grass Duo.

Entrepreneur and founder Romeo Ussery is proud to announce the launch of his latest endeavor, Outside Live, a new events production and promotions group based in Sacramento and serving fans across Northern California. The new organization will kick 2023 with a brand new festival concept debuting in Sacramento called Estamos Vivos Carnival on Sunday, February 19.

JadeYoga, a division of Jade Industries, Inc, announced today its collaboration with the Grateful Dead.  Jade’s Grateful Dead collection will include its most popular Harmony™ mats, cork yoga blocks and cotton yoga straps featuring the iconic Grateful Dead dancing bears in yoga poses.

Greensky Bluegrass are thrilled to announce support for their upcoming 2023 winter tour.  They have announced six bands across 16 dates.  Says Anders Beck,  “traditionally, we have carried the same support band with us for entire tours, but this winter we are changing that model for the sake of mixing it up. There are so many great bands out there to share the road with and jam with... and for me the most exciting thing about this winter is all the different collaborations we will get to have on stage.”

The Los Angeles based rock trio, Fencer, have today announced their long awaited self-titled debut album, set to drop on February 3rd, 2023 via Blood Blast Distribution. This marks the band's first self-produced release, composed of 10-tracks and what is considered to be their most authentic work yet. Fans can pre-save the album here.