Garcia Birthday Band, based in Portland Oregon, isnt your mothers Grateful Dead cover band. Playing for over 25 years, GBB has evolved into something far deeper than the sum of its parts. The beating heart of the Pacific Northwests GD community, the bands ever-expanding fanbase is an experience unto themselves. Using the Deads repertoire as a springboard for limitless potential and improvisation, Garcia Birthday Band is 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 Deads career or catalog, and drawing on decades of individual and shared experience, GBB plays 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 youre new to Garcia Birthday Band, their doors are always open, and youll recognize it as something familiarwhen you first walk in: home. You may recognize the fellas in GBB from acts such as Nine Days Wonder, Cubensis, Shafty, Turkey Bouillon Mafia, The Campfire Boys, Deadhenge, Shadow of Sound, The Buds of May, The Ike Willis Band, Dead Sessions, and Dark Matter Transfer.