Here is a concise list of shows and ticket links for y’all!

March West Coast 2019 Tour:
3/14/19 HopMonk Tavern, Sebastopol, CA – 1977-78 show With Maria Muldaur
3/15/19 Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley, CA – 1977-78 show With Maria Muldaur
3/16/19 Club Fox, Redwood City, CA
3/17/19 Miners Foundry, Nevada City, CA with support by Achilles Wheel Trio
3/21/19 The Good Foot, Portland, OR
3/22/19 W.O.W. Hall, Eugene, OR with The Psychedelic Express Light Show
3/23/19 Williams Grange Hall, Williams, OR with The Psychedelic Express Light Show
3/24/19 Williams Grange Hall, Williams, OR with The Psychedelic Express Light Show

April East Coast 2019 Tour:
4/13/19 Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes, NY
4/19/19 Stone Church, Brattleboro, VT
4/20/19 Wall Street Theater, Norwalk, CT
4/24/19 Brooklyn Bowl, NYC
4/27/19 Tilden Arts Center, New Bedford, MA

May Mid-West 2019 Tour:
5/4/19 Levon’s Barn, Woodstock, NY – With Maria Muldaur
5/18/19 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH

MORE DATES FOR 2019 COMING SOON!

Mik Bondy and Dan Crea got a chance to visit with Leo Elliott at his Scarlet Fire Guitars workshop in Dallas Texas. Leo is the builder of Mik Bondy’s #007 Tiger Guitar that he plays exclusively with The Garcia Project. You can read about and see pictures of Mik’s Tiger guitar build here.

Here is a short interview with Leo, and some photos of our tour of the shop below:

Get a hold of Leo and you can order a guitar for yourself! WEBSITE:  Scarlet Fire Guitars

The Garcia Project is heading out throughout the USA to celebrate the Jerry Garcia Band experience! Tickets will be on sale soon and MORE DATES will be added as well. Please help spread the word to any friends that are in any of the stops we are hitting! If you want us to perform in a particular town or city, please let us know! AND, Thank you – Your kind support and requests to play in your city has inspired us to journey out on this cross-country trip.

9/13 Brattleboro, VT
9/14 Fall River, MA
9/15 Rochester, NH
9/20 Rochester, NY
9/21 Cleveland, OH
9/22 Covington, KY
9/23 St. Louis, MO
9/26 Denver, CO
9/27 Fort Collins, CO
9/29 Salt Lake City, UT
9/30 Boise, ID
10/3 Seattle, WA
10/4 Portland, OR
10/5 Euguene, OR
10/6 Private Party
10/7 Redwood City, CA
10/10 Phoenix, AZ
10/13 Dallas, TX
10/17 Birmingham, AL
10/18 Nashville, TN
10/19 Asheville, NC
10/20 Rocky Mount, VA
10/25 Wilkesbarre, PA
10/26 Cohoes, NY
11/23 Norwalk, CT

Tickets available here: http://www.thegarciaproject.com/tour-dates/

Thank you Boston!

The Garcia Project at City Winery, Boston on 7/22/18
Performing The Jerry Garcia Band set list from
12/3/83 Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA

(Early) Sugaree, Catfish John, It Ain’t No Use, Run For The Roses, Dear Prudence, Deal E: How Sweet It Is

(Late) I: Cats Under The Stars, They Love Each Other, Love In The Afternoon, Mission In The Rain, Rhapsody In Red II: The Harder They Come, Russian Lullaby, Tangled Up In Blue, Midnight Moonlight

Looking for live Grateful Dead music in RI this weekend? Come check out the Nation’s top touring tribute to the Jerry Garcia Band. The Garcia project plays Jerry Garcia Band concerts in their entirety.

The nations only touring tribute to The Grateful Dead’s frontman Jerry Garcia’s band, The Garcia Project captures the spirit of the music.

The band recreates classic JGB set lists from 1976-1995. Founded by long time Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band fans who have a special love, understanding, and dedication to the music, and the delivery of that music. The Garcia Project pays special attention to the arrangements and feel of the specific eras, including the instrumentation and vocal stylings. While not a note for note recreation, the spirit of the original always shines through, while creating with the audience a new live music experience, founded in the same spirit.

Come check them out at one of their only East Coast performances. This Friday at 8:00 p.m. at The Stadium Theater in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

GET TICKETS NOW:  http://bit.ly/GarciaStadium

Acoustically Speaking (Kat & Mik from The Garcia Project) open the show with a set of soulful Grateful Dead.

“I spent a lot of nights in a lot of places with the Jerry Garcia Band, and I’m here to say that I really enjoy what The Garcia Project does with those memories.  Mik’s guitar and his and Kat’s vocals stir up some very sweet vibes…some times they almost make me feel like I’m back in, say, 1992 at the Warfield.  Check ‘em out.”  — Dennis McNally, former publicist for the Jerry Garcia Band

“For those of us who crave late 70’s (and through the 80’s and 90’s) Jerry Garcia Band, The Garcia Project scratches that itch for hearing live renditions of Jerry Garcia Band shows from that period.” — Bob Minkin, legendary Grateful Dead and Jerry Band rock photographer

“If you close your eyes, you’ll swear you are at a Jerry Garcia Band show.”  – ecoLocal Magazine, Albany, NY

“…it was hard to tell that it wasn’t Jerry signing on “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down….The Garcia Project’s attention to detail on intonation and performance structure does set them apart as an authority on Jerry Garcia.”  – NYS Music

“In order for a tribute band to be successful, fans need to look at them as the authority on the artist they are emulating. The Garcia Project pulls it off effortlessly. Go see them live …The Garcia Project is the whole package.” – Jim Gilbert, Upstate Live

“The Garcia Project was on point with the whole experience and it didn’t seem like a cover band more like a mirrored band…they are just as real as the Jerry Garcia Band. “– Buffalo FM Review

“”Deadicated“ to carrying on the music and vibe of Jerry that so many still carry in their hearts.” – Albany Times Union

Maria Muldaur to join The Garcia Project in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of The 1978 Cats Under The Stars Tour!

Maria Muldaur to join The Garcia Project for a special recreation concert of a classic show from the 1978 “Cats Under The Stars” Jerry Garcia Band tour.

Maria Muldaur will join The Garcia Project on March 8, 2018 at Club Fox in Redwood City, CA for one special night to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Jerry Garcia Band’s “Cats Under The Stars” tour from 1978. “Cats Under The Stars” was Jerry Garcia’s favorite album and the tour was filled with great songs and energy. Tickets are available now here: http://www.thegarciaproject.com/tour-dates/

Maria Muldaur will be singing with The Garcia Project’s Kat Walkerson and Mik Bondy (guitar). They will be joined by band members Dan Crea (bass guitar), Bobby Belanger (drums) and Justin Lopes (piano).

Maria Muldaur is best known world-wide for her 1974 mega-hit “Midnight at the Oasis,”which received several Grammy nominations, and enshrined her forever in the hearts of Baby Boomers everywhere. She started recording with Jerry Garcia and sitting in with The Jerry Garcia Band in ’74, joining the band officially from fall 1977 through 1978. Maria has recorded over 40 albums, and continues to perform Blues, Jazz, and Gospel both in the States and worldwide.

The Garcia Project is the nationally touring, critically acclaimed tribute to The Jerry Garcia Band. The Garcia Project performs full, classic set lists from 1976 – 1995. The Garcia Project faithfully channels and projects the feelings, emotions and music that propelled the Jerry Garcia Band and the fans through many years of musical bliss. It’s about family, soul searching, rejoicing, contemplating, celebrating, seeking truth and loving one another. It’s The Garcia Project.

“I spent a lot of nights in a lot of places with the Jerry Garcia Band, and I’m here to say that I really enjoy what The Garcia Project does with those memories.  Mik’s guitar and his and Kat’s vocals stir up some very sweet vibes…Check ‘em out.” — Dennis McNally, former publicist for the Jerry Garcia Band

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: goo.gl/gqb4qc

More about Maria Muldaur:

http://www.mariamuldaur.com

More about The Garcia Project:

Web Site: http://www.thegarciaproject.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGarciaProject

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/thegarciaproject

Thank you, Grass Valley, CA! We love you!

November 17 | Grass Valley, CA | The Center For The Arts

12/19/1992 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA

SET 1
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Mission In The Rain
That’s What Love Will Make You Do
Like A Road
You Never Can Tell [C’est La Vie]
Ain’t No Bread In The Breadbox
My Sisters And Brothers
Deal

SET 2
Shining Star
Wonderful World
And It Stoned Me
Money Honey
Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
Don’t Let Go
Midnight Moonlight

SET I

SET II

Thank you, Portland! We had another full house on our second night of the tour! <3

November 9 | Portland, OR | The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge
6/1/83 Roseland Ballroom, New York City, NY

Pacific Northwest Tour 2017 opener:

Wow! Thank you Seattle! We had a full house for our first night of the tour and what a night it was! <3

November 8 | Seattle, WA | Nectar Lounge

3/6/76 Moore’s Egyptian Theater, Seattle, WA

Set I:
Tore Up Over You
Catfish John
Russian Lullaby
They Love Each Other
Mystery Train
Who Was John
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Lonesome And A Long Way From Home

Set II:
The Harder They Come
Friend Of The Devil
After Midnight
Moonlight Mile
Strange Man
I Want To Tell You
My Sisters And Brothers
How Sweet It Is

Filler:
ramble on rose
that’s what love will make you do

Leo Elliot of Scarlet Fire Guitars in Dallas Texas was hired in 2016 to build the closest replica of Jerry Garcia’s iconic Doug Irwin guitar, called Tiger for me (Mik Bondy, guitarist of The Garcia Project) as a gift from a loyal fan. Kat and I drove to Dallas in 2016 to get measurements of my hands, and to choose a neck and talk about electronics and frets and tone with Leo.

The tiger was delivered to me on 7-22-17, at a friend’s house in MA. Here is some information on the build:

• Mexican cocobolo
• set-neck configuration
• inlaid and outlined w/ 1/16th inch brass
• Tiger inlaid on an ebony oval, accented with brass
• Neck is curly maple, accented by a vermillion center stripe and accented with thin layers of vermillion and maple
• Gabon ebony fretboard is inlaid with the classic Tiger motif
• Rear of the guitar is a brass outlined, quilted maple and cocobolo oval -The maple oval has a 1/16th inch red, yellow and blue marquetry strip around its circumference. The cocobolo oval is inlaid with an art deco style flower of two types of abalone, MOP, and brass.
• Electronics cover is cut out of the same piece of cocobolo as the back and is outlined with brass.
• Pots are NOS military surplus. The volume pot is a 25k value with a logarithmic taper and the neck and bridge tone are controlled by a custom manufactured, 250k/500k value Allen Bradley style, dual Mod pot just like the original. The other tone pot is a 500k value linear taper.
• onboard effects loop (OBEL) that allows the output signal from the pickups to be sent to an effects chain and return to the instrument before the volume pot. This was a personal invention of Jerry’s that allowed his signal to remain consistent when using the master volume and it allowed certain FX, like the Mutron III to always see a full input signal no matter what the master vol. on the guitar was set on.
• Unity gain buffer circuit made by wald-electronics.com.
• DiMarzio single-coil pick-up in the neck and two DiMarzio superdistortion humbuckers for the middle and bridge. I cut a one-piece cocobolo surround to mount the single coil, neck pickup in to the humbucker sized hole on the triple ring.
• Kluson reproduction harmonica bridge
• Gold Schaller M6 tuners

Here is Mik Bondy performing on the “Scarlet>Fire Tiger” for the first time on Jerry Garcia’s 75th Birthday Celebration, Presented by The Jerry Garcia Family:

Here is the “unboxing” video:

The Tiger needed a battery, so I put one in and tuned it up. I had a small fender travel amp to try it with. Take a listen to the first song played on Tiger here:

I am looking forward to plugging Tiger into my rig. My current rig is a modded 1967 Fender blackface twin for my pre-amp, a modded 2100 Mcintosh solid state amplifier for my power, two well used JBL e-120 speakers in a handmade Hard Trucker style cabinet, and effects rack with a MuTron, Boss Octive, Boss Delay with tap tempo, MXR Phaser with rate foot pedal mod, Boss Turbo Overdrive, Tubscreamer, Boss OD-1, rack tuner and ground control loop and pedal board. The rig was built and designed by myself over the course of three years.

Here are some photos of Tiger. If you want to hear Tiger through my rig, come on out to a show! The first public show that I will be playing Tiger at is the Jerry Garcia Family official 75th Birthday Celebration on August 1, 2017 at The Brooklyn Bowl. [GET TICKETS HERE]  The Garcia Project will perform a full Jerry Garcia Band show and Andy Falco and friends will perform selections from The Pizza Tapes and more!

Here are the photos of the build of the guitar:

Want your own Tiger, Wolf or Rosebud? Get in touch with Leo Elliot here: http://www.scarletfireguitarsllc.com/tiger/