An Evening with Garcia Birthday Band

Sat. 7/5/25 at The Ruins. Doors at 5:30pm. Outdoor venue. All-ages. Pets not allowed.

Tickets are $25 in advance (click here,) or $30 at the door.  

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 fan base 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 catalog, 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…