Grateful Dead Folktales

Grateful Dead folktales, generally, are about a troubled soul who is put to rest by a traveler…further down the road the spirit then helps the traveler with his own quest.  Grateful Dead folktales and other folktales with similar themes are found in folktale collections from all parts of the world. 

The popular "The Travelling Companion" by Hans Christian Andersen (1835) is an example of a Grateful Dead folktale and you can read it here.

Grateful Dead to Reunite and Play PSU in Support of Barack Obama

Following up on the February, 2008 show of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead in support of Barack Obama they will reunite again October 13th at Penn State University in support of the Obama campaign. The Obama campaign has received support from other musicians when Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds performed a benefit for Obama at the University of Indiana in April.

You can read more here:
http://www.gratefuldead.com/features/news/rock-legends-play-obama-fundraiser
http://www.barackobama.com/psu

LeRoi Moore 1961-2008

I just learned the sad and unexpected news that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died this afternoon in Los Angeles. The feelings I'm experiencing right now are similar to when I heard the news that Brent Midland, keyboard player for the Grateful Dead, had died back in 1989 and when Jerry Garcia, guitar player and founding member of the Grateful Dead, had died in 1995. To read the DMB's press release please visit: http://www.davematthewsband.com/news/

Grateful Dead Donate Their Archives to UC Santa Cruz

In April, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir annouced that the Grateful Dead would donate their archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz. You can read the Santa Cruz press announcement here: http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2142 and access the Grateful Dead Archive here: http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/GD_archive.html.