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Garcia Birthday Band wsg. Bottleneck Blues Band

  • Alberta Abbey 126 Northeast Alberta Street Portland, OR, 97211 United States (map)

Doors at 7:00 | Show at 8:00

All ages welcome.

Free parking available in the lot across the street until full.

Garcia Birthday Band, based in Portland Oregon, isn’t your mother’s Grateful Dead cover band.

Playing for over 20 years, GBB has evolved into something far deeper than the sum of its parts. The beating heart of the Pacific Northwest’s GD community, the band’s ever-expanding fanbase is an experience unto themselves. Using the Dead’s repertoire as a springboard for limitless potential and improvisation, Garcia Birthday Band are a cornerstone of the modern Grateful Dead universe, and their fans have come to expect the unexpected as the norm.

Placing no boundaries on eras of the Dead’s career or catalogue, and drawing on decades of individual and shared experience, GBB play the music through an auditory kaleidoscope. Composed of some of the most ace players of the Oregon live music community, the band makes every show an act of exploration, both musically and spiritually. United hearts and minds blur the line between the stage and crowd – a carnival of human potential. If you’re new to Garcia Birthday Band, their doors are always open, and you’ll recognize it as something familiar when you first walk in: a place called home. 

With musicians hailing from the likes of Nine Days Wonder, Shadow of Sound, Shafty, Turkey Boulion Mafia, Campfire Boys, Deadhenge, Cubensis, the Buds of May, the Ike Willis Band, the band is certain to provide high musical adventure!

BOTTLENECK BLUES BAND

In 2015 Bottleneck Blues Band was named Best New Blues Band by the Cascade Blues Association and nominated for Best CD of the Year Award. The Band has played all over Oregon, Washington and Idaho doing shows both big and small. Bottleneck Blues Band has headlined, opened and shared the stage in some of the biggest Festivals in the region, including the Waterfront Blues Festival, The Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival, Vancouver Fireworks in the Fort, The Gorge Blues Festival, Peninsula Blues Festival, The Taste of Tacoma, The Crawdad Festival, Canby Beer Festival, and The Craft Beer and Wine Festival. The Band also has a rotation of great clubs that they have performed in over the years, including The Blue Diamond, The River City Saloon, McMenamins Edgefield, The Grand Lodge, The Kennedy School, Trails End, Wild Hare Saloon, The Garages, The Vinyl Tap,The Skyway, Northwood Brewery, Everybody's Brewing and the Cascadia Brothers Brewing Co. The band is working on releasing their third CD "Live Serenity" recorded at the Serenity Mountain Music Festival and has their eye on getting back in the studio for another recording project soon. In the beginning Bottleneck described it's music as red hot funky blues but now they refer to it simply as Dance Blues.

There's just something fundamental about them that people understand as soon as they start to play. The Bottleneck Blues Band sounds great, plays great and is amazing to watch. Check out their show dates and come dance with them!

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