photos: Michael Chojnowski, Bruce Matzkin, Jody Bauman

Thanks for celebrating the beginning of Matt's 60th circle around the sun with Raising The Dead at the Blind Pig!  Over 200 fans paid to join us for an evening of musical bliss and the fellowship that follows this most special music. Chaim's family band Groove Monkey Trio opened the show for us, and everybody oo'd and ah'd when they dropped their Shakedown Street > We Want The Funk medley.  

Superfan Bruce Matzkin traveled all the way from Boston to join us! We always appreciate the first-rate sound engineering we receive from Front of House (FOH) at The Blind Pig. The great sound let us stretch out and enjoy some really unique trance-jams, especially in Shakedown (the one RTD played). We can't wait to do it all for y'all again. 

1-4-2025 The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, MI 
I: Jack Straw > Mississippi Half Step Toodeloo > Hell in a Bucket > Maggie's Farm > Cumberland Blues, Black Throated Wind, So Many Roads > China Cat Sunflower > Feel Like A Stranger
II: Dark Star > Playing In The Band > Ship of Fools > Playing Jam > Shakedown Street > Drums > I Need a Miracle > Terrapin Station > Playing Reprise,
Scarlet Begonias
E: Women Are Smarter
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Bill, Dave, Joseph, and Matt rang in the new year with our 3rd annual Pajama Brunch at the Sardine Room.  We played Grateful Dead music to the sold out house, and had a ton of fun along the way.  See ya in Ann Arbor on Saturday, January 4 as we celebrate Matt's 60th birthday with an electric show at the Blind Pig

1-1-2025 The Sardine Room, Plymouth, MI
I: Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, The Music Never Stopped, Mama Tried, Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance, Althea, Me & Bobby McGee, Don't Ease Me In
II: Friend of the Devil, Rhinestone Cowboy, El Paso, Unbroken Chain, Me & My Uncle, Ramble On Rose, Big Bad Blues, Going Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > GDRFB > Morning Dew, Casey Jones

In honor of the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" and because Bob toured with The Dead, (see the album Dylan and the Dead) Raising The Dead played a show with a ton of Dylan covers.  We were joined by friends from far and near, and Jodi Bauman live panted the extraordinary art you see here.  We return to the Sardine Room for our 3rd annual New Year's Day Pajama Brunch on 1/1/25! 

12-28-2024 The Sardine Room, Plymouth, MI
I: Promised Land > Bertha, Maggie's Farm* > Cumberland Blues, Tom Thumb's Blues*, Pegggy O, Forever Young*, US Blues
II: Weather Report > Let It Grow, Tennessee Jed, My Brother Esau, Tangled Up In Blue*, Truckin > Bird Song, Quinn The Eskimo*
* = Bob Dylan song

It's almost 2025, and you have 3 chances to see Raising The Dead perform the best music coming up!  

Saturday, December 28 at the Sardine Room in Plymouth for Grateful Brunch, 10-3, music 11-2
Wednesday, January 1  at the Sardine Room in Plymouth for New Year's Day Pajama Brunch, 10-3, music 11-2
Saturday, January 4 at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor for Matt's birthday!

We hope to see you at some or all.  Happy Holidays!

On Saturday, Raising the Dead presented a Detroit Dead Supergroup with Bill Butler, Dave Martin, joined by Social Bones' Justin Lee, and Dead at the Winery's Tom Sheppard, with live painting by Jody Bauman! RTD returns the last Saturday of every month (12/28) and for our 3rd annual New Year’s Day Pajama Brunch.

11-30-2024 Grateful Brunch, Plymouth, MI
I: West LA Fadeaway, Sugaree, Friend of the Devil, Candyman, Viola Lee Blues, Standing on the Moon, New Speedway Boogie
II: Shakedown Street > Iko Iko > Spanish Jam > Truckin > Liberty > Don’t Ease Me In > Man Smart Woman Smarter > Not Fade Away > Goin Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain
E: The Weight

We are thankful for you!  Join Dave and Bill with special guests Justin Lee of Social Bones and Tom Sheppard from Dead at The Winery for an afternoon of the finest acoustic entertainment.  Try the pork belly hash or the shrimp & grits, both band favorite foods. Walk ins welcome, reservations encouraged! 

Th-th-thank you Detroit!  What a pleasure to play our fourth Detroit Red Wings Grateful Dead Night!  This year featured a sound system upgrade from Chris Hines' OnStage75 productions, front of house mixing by Dallas Barr, video production by our friend Yorg Keraiotis, a deeper stage, and a killer setlist of Grateful Dead favorites!  

We came in hot out of the gate with Quinn the Eskimo - the Dylan classic the Dead usually saved for the encore - then kept the energy up with psych-cowboy numbers Mama Tried into the vocal showcase Cumberland Blues. Next, Here Comes Sunshine got psychedelicc with the classic '73 arrangement. Dancing was the Motown version the Dead played at the beginning and end of their career (not to be confused with the disco one we played a couple years ago), we iced the cake with teases of Third Stone from the Sun and Dark Star.  Althea and Eyes (with the '73 coda) showed off Alex's voice, a short but powerful Drums was followed by a roaring The Other One, with a gazinta to our tribute to the Late Phil Lesh, Unbroken Chain.  We ended with an epic Morning Dew and the whole crowd sang along with the Beatle's classic LSD. 

Thanks to all who joined us, if you missed it or want to relive it, we have full video and audio recordings we will produce and release on our YouTube channel soon.  In the mean time, come see us Thanksgiving weekend for our regular acoustic Grateful Brunch at the Sardine Room in Plymouth!

11/2/2024 Detroit, MI Grateful Dead night at the Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena
Quinn The Eskimo, Mama Tried > Cumberland Blues, Here Comes Sunshine, Dancing In The Street*, Althea, Eyes of the World > Drums > The Other One > Unbroken Chain > Morning Dew > Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
​* = Third Stone From The Sun and Dark Star teases

This Saturday is our big show at the Red Wings!  One ticket buys the concert, the jersey, and the game.  Here's the schedule (which the Red Wings will email to all event ticket holders with additional information).  Tickets are sure to sell out again, get yours today!
3:30 doors
4:00-5:30 concert
7:00 game

10-26-2024 Grateful Brunch at The Sardine Room, Plymouth, MI
“Thank you Phil!” and Reckoning album tribute

I: He’s Gone > Touch of Grey, Broken Arrow, Dire Wolf, The Race Is On, Oh Babe It Ain’t no Lie, It Must Have Been the Roses, Dark Hollow, China Doll, Been All Around This World, Monkey and the Engineer
II: Box of Rain > Jack A Roe, Deep Ellum Blues, Cassidy, To Lay Me Down, Rosalie McFall, On The Road Again, Bird Song, Ripple > Box of Rain > Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Join us for our annual Halloween show, this year covering the Dead's "Reckoning" bookended with spooky songs from other artists. Clothing optional, costumes required.  Wait...