An Evening with FURTHUR

Fans can expect Lesh & Weir to push the musical envelope with jaw-dropping improvisations and loving renditions of Grateful Dead classics, with an all star band that includes keyboardist Jeff Chimenti (RatDog), drummer Joe Russo (Benevento-Russo Duo, Trey Anastasio), guitarist John Kadlecik (Dark Star Orchestra), and vocalists Sunshine Becker and Jeff Pehrson.

New and old fans of the Grateful Dead alike
will be entranced as Phil & Bob take the musical journey "furthur",
exploring some of the Grateful Dead's most beloved songs in a tour that
promises to keep the feet stomping and the bodies shaking. 

Those looking for the inspiration of the current jam band movement need look no further than Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. A founding member of the venerable American musical institution, the Grateful Dead, Phil has continued to inspire while pushing the envelope with his highly evolved musical performances. In 2009, he teamed up with his Grateful Dead brother Bob Weir to form Furthur, a band that continues the Grateful Dead tradition of stellar playing and free flowing improvisation that moves the mind and shakes the body. 

Bob Weir was born in San Francisco in 1947 and grew up in the suburb of Atherton. After less-than-popular-with-the-family-and-neighbors experiences with piano and trumpet, he glommed onto the guitar at the age of 13, and hasn't let go since. He soon became the most-junior member of a folk scene that centered on a Palo Alto, California, club called the Tangent, which hosted such future legends as Jerry Garcia, Jorma Kaukonen, and Janis Joplin. Kaukonen was his guitar-picking role model (Garcia, at that time, was a banjo player), and Weir soon became a full-fledged, if young, folkie, listening to Lightnin' Hopkins, Joan Baez, and the Greenbriar Boys, as well as the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry.