Jerry Garcia at 80: Celebrating 'The Days Between'

Jerry Garcia superimposed on a recent NASA image of the universe.

Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 in San Francisco and died on August 9, 1995 at Serenity Knolls in Lagunitas, California. The nine-day period between Garcia's birth and death is now known, in Deadhead circles, as The Days Between, which is the name of a Dead song written by Garcia and Robert Hunter; it appears on the So Many Roads compilation (listen below). 

There were days
And there were days
And there were days between
Polished like a golden bowl
The finest ever seen

This year wouild have been Garcia's 80th. Many events have been scheduled to celebrate that as well as The Days Between.

 

 

Aug. 1, Napa, CA

August 1

Jerry Garcia Foundation Fundraiser, Blue Note, Napa, CA; featuring David Nelson Band

• Jerry Garcia Night, Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY; bobblehead giveaway at Mariners-Yankees game

• Jerry Garcia's 80th Birthday Celebration, The Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO; featuring A Very Jerry Band

Jerry's 80th Birthday Dance Party, Garcia's at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY; featuring Stella Blues Band and Dee J. Heals

The Garcia Project, The Stone Church, Brattleboro, VT

Jerry Garcia's 80th Birthday Celebration, Salvage Station, Asheville, NC; featuring Very Jerry Band

Jerry's 80th B-day Bash, Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley, CA; featuring Big Steve Parish & the Assbites

Jerry Garcia 80th Birthday Celebration, The Junction, Mill Valley; featuring Stu Allen & Mars Hotel

Jerry Garcia's 80th Birthday, Crossroads, Garwood, NJ

Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead movie screening, Woodward Cinema, Cincinnati, OH

Jerry Garcia 80th Birthday Celebration, Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY; lecture and Q&A with film archivist Bill Shelley

 

Aug. 2, San Francisco, CA

August 2

Jerry Garcia Tribute Night, Oracle Stadium, San Francisco, CA; Garcia t-shirt giveaway at Giants-Dodgers game

Phish, Blossom Music Center, Cayahoga Falls, OH

 

The Garcia Project has five shows in the Northeast during The Days Between.

August 3

The Garcia Project, The Katherine Hepburn Theater, Old Saybrook, CT

Comes a Time: A Jerry Garcia 80th Birthday Celebration, Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA

Phish, Pine Knob Music Amphitheatre, Clarkston, MI

 

Aug. 4, Port Chester, NY

August 4

MIHALI (from Twiddle), Garcia's at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY

The Garcia Project, NBT Summer Concert Series, Norwich, NY; featuring Maria Muldaur

 

Aug. 6, Pittsburgh, PA

August 5

Deadication: A Jerry Garcia Celebration, Thunderbird Music Hall. Pittsburgh, PA

The Garcia Project, The Narrows, Fall River, MA

Jerry Garcia's 80th Birthday Celebration, High Horse Bar, Louisville, KY; featuring the Stolen Faces

 

Aug. 5-7, Laytonville, CA

August 5-7

The Days Between, Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville, CA; Dark Star Orchestra, Melvin Seals & JGB, Keller Williams' Grateful Grass, Jerry's Middle Finger and more

The Jerry Dance Party, The Showboat, Atlantic City, NY

Phish, Atlantic City Beach, Atlantic City, NJ

 

Aug. 6, Melbourne, AU

August 6

Jerry Day, Red Rattler's, Melbourne, Australia; featuring Shakedown Pirates, Ramblin Roses and more

• The Garcia Project, Payomet Performing Arts Center, North Turo, MA

• Jerry Garcia's 80th Birthday Celebration, Basement East, Nashville, TN

• Jerry Garcia's 80th Birthday Celebration, Lighthouse Amphitheatre, Fairport Harbor, OH

 

Aug. 9, Boston, MA

August 9

Jerry Day, Fenway Park, Boston, NY; bobblehead giveaway and pregame set by Playing Dead at Brave-Red Sox game

 

 

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Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom

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