The Grateful Dead got their start as the Warlocks at Magoo’s Pizza Parlor at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park, on May 5, 1965. Come celebrate 60 years of their phenomenal music and the phenomenon they inspired with Jazz Mafia’s Grateful Brass bringing their unique spin to Grateful Dead classics!

Led by Adam Theis, a member of Bob Weir’s Wolfpack since 2020, Grateful Brass brings the Dead’s music to life through the electrifying force of horns, drums, and vocals. Featuring vocalist Erin Honeywell, the band fuses jazz, funk, and brass-heavy grooves with the improvisational spirit that defines the Dead’s legacy. Jazz Mafia’s renditions add a fresh, high-energy twist to the iconic tracks and capture the magic and the spirit of the Grateful Dead’s innovative sound.

This loving homage performed in the Gothic grandeur of Grace Cathedral, reimagined as a psychedelic ballroom of the 60s with a Liquid Light Show provided by Mad Alchemy,  will make you fall in love with Grateful Dead’s music all over again – or for the first time. 

Listen

Scarlet Begonias | Grateful Brass | Live at the Guild Theatre

Tickets

General $40

Senior/Student $30

Event Details

The cathedral will open for seating at 7 pm. The entrance to the cathedral is at the top of the Great Steps. The accessible entrance is via the glass doors on Taylor Street or from the cathedral garage.

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About Jazz Mafia

In the year 2000, trombonist, bassist, composer, arranger, and producer Adam Theis co-founded Jazz Mafia – an eclectic artist collective of forward-thinking and accomplished players in Electro, Hip-Hop, World, Classical, and Jazz. Twenty years in the making, Jazz Mafia is a prolific staple of the quintessential San Francisco sound, uniting creative and accomplished Bay Area instrumentalists, vocalists, MCs, composers, and arrangers. The collective quickly garnered a reputation for its collaborative and risk-taking spirit, and over the years has worked with Roy Ayers, Lyrics Born, Zion-I, Rebelution, Latyrx, Galactic, Ledesi, Blackalicious, and Jackie Greene, to name a few. Recently, the collective performed sold out residencies at the SFJAZZ Center and served as the house band in The Soiled Dove – its large-scale cirque-inspired collaboration with The Vau de Vire Society. Jazz Mafia has also recently collaborated with the Oakland Symphony at Paramount Theatre of the Arts, as well as with GRAMMY-winning composer Mason Bates and his Mercury Soul project at the Kennedy Center in DC. Jazz Mafia also curates musical experiences for Stanford University, Oakland Art & Soul Festival, and many other presenters.