Dead & Company kicked off their Final Tour Saturday with a headlining single set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Lightning and torrential rains delayed the festivities, with gates opening over an hour past the 11:00 am schedule, causing some of the earlier slated bands to be scrapped. The rain held off for most of Dead & Co’s electric-only set. The sun even managed to make a late-set appearance.

Renowned singer, songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author Josh Ritter will continue his headline tour this fall with newly confirmed shows at Dallas’ Longhorn Ballroom, Houston’s Heights Theater, Austin’s Paramount Theatre, Los Angeles’ The Belasco, San Francisco’s The Fillmore and Seattle’s Moore Theatre among others. Ritter will be joined on the road by his longtime band, The Royal City Band. Tickets for the new dates go on-sale this Friday, May 12 at 10:00am local time.

The Oakland Athletics will be joining in on all the fun this summer celebrating Jerry on August 18! With the purchase of a special event ticket, folks will receive a t-shirt, exclusive access to a pre-game concert featuring Moonalice, and a ticket to the game. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Rex Foundation.

If you didn't catch last night's announcement, then Nugs.net is pleased to let you know now that nugs.net will be livestreaming all 29 stops from Dead & Company's Final Tour! Available in 4K and HD, individual shows and discounted multi-night passes are now on sale. The Unlimited Devotion tour pass provides access to every show, live or on-demand, and through Friday the tour packages are heavily discounted.

Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One will be released August 18 on Nonesuch Records. The album is the GRAMMY, MacArthur and Pulitzer-winning singer, composer, and instrumentalist’s third solo studio album and her first of all original songs; her last solo album was 2017’s critically acclaimed Freedom Highway. This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens’ career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants.