Announcing our FREE TICKET CONTEST for our 3-29 show in NOVI!
We are giving away 2 GA tickets
Here's what you need to do to win:

1. On this Facebook post, comment a number between 1-555
2. Also comment a song you'd like to hear us play
3. Share the post

We will draw the winner by random number on Friday, March 21 at noon. Good luck!
Or, Get your tickets here!

photos: Dave Martin

We're coming to the town named after depot station #6 (maybe) - NOVI!  Shakedown will appear at the HUB Stadium Novi on Saturday, March 29, and we hope you'll join us!  Tickets are available at this link, and let your friends know you are going by RSVP'ing on Facebook.  We'll be playing a 5-piece electric set that night, but in the afternoon we will play our regular, last Saturday of the month gig at The Sardine Room in Plymouth.  We hope you will decide to call in on that day and take a trip with us! 

photos: William Morgan, Heinz Plaumann, Dave Martin, Jody Bauman

On Saturday, February 22, Bill, Dave and Joseph were joined by one of our favorite musicians, Dead At The Winery's Michael Bush for another fun filled Saturday show. Jody Bauman painted another original masterpiece. We wrote the first set and invited the audience to suggest songs for our second, a formula that yielded excellent results the last time we did it - and this time was just as joyful!  So many friends came out to shake their bones, with special guest Angela Shepard joining us for "They Love Each Other."  We'll do this again on March 29 for sure!

2.22.2025 The Sardine Room, Plymouth, MI
I: Sugar Magnolia, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Easy Wind, They Love Each Other*, Two Souls in Communion^, The Other One > Loose Lucy > The Other One, Sunshine Daydream
II: Dear Prudence, Shakedown Street, Estimated Prophet, Viola Lee Blues, Ruben and Cerise, Terrapin Station, Operator, Black Throated Wind, On The Road Again, Ripple
*=Angela Shepard on vocals
^= first time played

It's finally here!  after months of production, we are ready for you to experience our performance at the Red Wings show again.  Relive the magic or experience it for the first time, here is the "state of the band" in it's purest form.  Enjoy!  Big props to all involved in the production of this video including Alex Gauthier & Dave Martin for producing the crispy audio and Yorg Kerasiotis of Broken Blanket Media for capturing and editing the video.  

Our February 22 Grateful Brunch performance will be inspired by everyone's favorite emotion - LOVE!  Our first set will feature the best Grateful Dead love songs to sweeten your weekend.  The second will be entirely by request - we will take requests during the first and assemble a set at our lunch break.  Please join us to experience the magic!  Reservations encouraged, but not required.  

Join Matt Cole, Chaim Tolwin, Dave Levy, John Lyle, and Philip Nathan for a night filled with JGB and Dead tunes.  As our Valentines gift to you, the gig is free! Music starts at 9. Catch DJ Chadwick in the lanes spinning Funky Spunky Soul, Garage, Prog, 70’s, 80’s, Alternative, Indie and more!

Our first "jukebox" audience request show was a huge success. Definitely ended as a Dead dance party at the Sardine Room! We played our first set by pulling requests from the tip jar and during our break (eating the best brunch around) we assembled a second set from requests - it was simply awesome.  Jodi painted one of our favorite pieces from his request: Ship of Fools. For our next show, we will write a first set and make our second set from your requests.  Join us February 22!

1/25/2025 The Sardine Room, Plymouth MI
I: Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told > Viola Lee Blues > Greatest Story Ever Told, Cassidy, Mr. Charlie, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Eleven > Deep Elum Blues
II: When I Paint My Masterpiece, Ship of Fools > Eyes of the World 74 > Shakedown Street, Wharf Rat > Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain
E: Althea

Hey Deadheads, come to the Sardine Room this Saturday for an all-request show!  We will put out the fishbowl and some sticky notes and pencils, and you can request any Dead (or Dead-played) song, and we will do our best to play it.  Funny thing, it only works if you come on out!  Reservations encouraged. 

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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