Dead & Company Add More Tour Dates

This fall Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will be joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti for a tour billed as Dead And Company. The band had already announced a slew of fall dates as well as a New Year’s run. Today, Dead & Company added 11 more fall shows to the docket.

The newly added dates come after the previously announced fall run that begins at Times Union Center in Albany, New York on October 29 and concludes at Worcester’s DCU Center on November 10. Dead & Company’s Fall Tour continues on November 11 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York and is now slated to run until a pair of shows in Las Vegas at MGM Grand Garden Arena on November 27 and 28. Other newly added dates include visits to Columbus, Ohio; Greensboro, North Carolina; Atlanta; Nashville; St. Louis; Minneapolis and Broomfield, Colorado. Dead & Company end the year with a pair of shows in San Francisco (December 27 and 28) and Los Angeles (December 30 and 31).

An American Express pre-sale for tickets to the newly added shows begins September 16 at 10 a.m. local time (except Nashville which starts at 9 a.m. local time) and will run through September 17 at 10 p.m. local time. Public on-sales start September 18 at 10 a.m. local time.

Earlier this summer Hart, Weir, Kreutzmann and Chimenti teamed with Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Phil Lesh for five Fare Thee Well – Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead shows in Santa Clara and Chicago. With Lesh deciding not to participate in Dead & Company, the Chicago shows will still stand as the last time the Grateful Dead’s “core four” shared the stage. Phil has his own plans for the fall including a run of shows at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.

In the Summer of 2013 guitarist John Mayer gained a new appreciation for the Grateful Dead. He discussed his new found love of the band in an interview that summer and even threw a few Dead covers into his sets. A year ago Mayer took to Twitter to share more thoughts about what made the Grateful Dead so special. Then, in February, the guitarist invited Bob Weir to perform with him on CBS’s The Late Late Show. Fast forward to June when John played two shows with Phil Lesh & Friends at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California. Chimenti was not only a member of the Fare Thee Wellband, but he was a longtime Weir sideman in RatDog and also participated in a post-Jerry incarnation of “The Dead.” Burbridge is a newcomer to the world of the Grateful Dead, but has sang many a version of “Franklin’s Tower” with the Allman Brothers Band.