Grateful Shred

Grateful Shred bring their Grateful Dead songbook to The Bellwether. The Los Angeles collective are billed for a night devoted to Dead material, drawing from deep cuts as well as songs the band never recorded in the studio. Their configurations have varied on recorded releases, so the exact personnel for this date is not confirmed, but the approach is clear: familiar writing reopened for extended playing and recast in the group’s own vibe.

Based in Los Angeles, Grateful Shred describe themselves as “a kinetic collective of West Coast roots chemists.” Their sun-soaked reinventions balance a punk rock ethos with the exploratory reach of the Dead’s catalog, rather than treating the songs as museum pieces. A reviewer called their music “a sonic voyage that truly captures a certain bands extended jams without trying to replicate them,” while other comments characterize the playing as “mellow” and “very tight.” Mikaela Davis appears on one of the group’s releases, though the available material does not identify other outside collaborators.