From David Gans

Greetings from dank, drippy Oakland CA!

It's been a quiet couple of months musically, but I have been busy! The Sirius Satellite Radio gig is great fun ( If you'd like to check it out, can get a free three-day online trial at http://www.sirius.com/gratefuldead - and that's good for all channels, of course!), and I have also been working on several musical projects that (if all goes well) will yield happy results in the year to come.

My Bay Area dance card is filling up all of a sudden, and touring plans for the year are just starting to take shape. I'll post more festival gigs soon, and if all goes well there will be some interesting collaborations as well. And who knows? Maybe even a club tour - it's been a while!

As always, the gig info is kept current at http://www.dgans.com/gigs.html

I also post about my performances, along with news of my various creative endeavors and other stuff you might find worthwhile, on my blog Cloud Surfing (formerly known as the logblog).

I hope to see you at one or more of these events. Your help is greatly appreciated - tell your friends about these shows, print out the posters and pass 'em around. Word of mouth is everything in this bizniz!

Fri 2/1, 7:30 pm: Moon News Bookstore, 315 Main Street, Half Moon Bay CA. Free! But of course, it would be great if you bought a book. Some of mine will be available... 650-726-8610 P.S. Wanna help us draw a crowd? Download the poster ( http://www.dgans.com/pressroom/MoonNews_poster.pdf ) , print some out, and spread 'em around. Thanks in advance!

Sun 2/3, 3-4pm: DG, Ira Marlowe and TBA at Songs of Sonoma. Ordinary Miracles, 8280 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati CA. Larry Murante follows at 4pm. Ordinary Miracles, 8280 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati CA. For reservations call 707-795-2462

Sat 2/9, 9am-1am PST: The annual KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon! WE'll be webcasting via nugs.net, kpfa.org, and possibly dead.net as well. http://dttw.gdhour.com http://www.kpfa.org

Fri 2/15: house concert in Placitas NM. Email david-at-trufun.com for details.

Sun 2/17: Flagstaff Brewing Company, 16 E Route 66, Flagstaff AZ. Details TBA. http://www.flagbrew.com

Fri 2/22, 8pm: David Gans, Ira Marlowe, and Mario DeSio at The Belrose Theatre, 1415 5th Ave, San Rafael. Tickets: 415-389-5072 or http://www.MurphyProductions.com Poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/2207675185/

Sat 2/23, 9:30am-1:30pm: Grand Lake Farmers' Market, at Lake Park and Grand Avenues in Oakland. Free! http://www.splashpad.org

Sat 3/8, 7:30pm: David Gans, Mario DeSio, Vanessa Lowe, and Wendy Beckerman at Spud's, 3290 Adeline, Berkeley.

Wed 3/12, 8pm: Rubber Souldiers (Chris Rowan, Lorin Rowan, David Gans, Paul Knight) play Beatle songs and other favorites at Iron Springs Pub, 765 Center Bl, Fairfax. No cover! Poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/2219645889/

Sat 3/15, 8pm: Left Coast Concert Series presents Celebrating Songwriters: Caren Armstrong, David Gans, + TBA Left Coast Cyclery, 2928 Domingo, Berkeley. Tix: 510-204-8552 or http://www.leftcoastcyclery.com/concerts.htm

March 27-30: Suwannee SpringFest at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak FL. http://www.magmusic.com

Sat 4/12: Benefit for Greenaction at the Ashkenaz, Berkeley CA. Details TBA. http://www.greenaction.org

Mon 4/14, 6:40-8:30pm: David plays live on KWMR (90.5 Pt. Reyes Station, 89.3 Bolinas, kwmr.org) with host The Hippie from Olema. Fund-raiser for the station: http://www.kwmr.org

Fri 4/18, 9:30pm: The Old Western Saloon, Pt Reyes Station. http://www.myspace.com/oldwesternsaloon

SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO'S GRATEFUL DEAD CHANNEL DEBUTS NEW SHOW
Live roundtable discussion show "Tales from the Golden Road" premieres January 20
Scheduled guests include Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir


SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today the debut of a monthly live roundtable show hosted by Grateful Dead experts David Gans and Gary Lambert on SIRIUS' exclusive Grateful Dead Channel. "Tales from the Golden Road" will premiere this Sunday, January 20 at 4 p.m. ET, with an encore January 21 at 10 a.m. ET on the Grateful Dead Channel, SIRIUS channel 32.
In the premiere episode of "Tales from the Golden Road," Gans and Lambert will be joined by Grateful Dead and RatDog guitarist Bob Weir, longtime Grateful Dead publicist and historian Dennis McNally, and the producer of the Trips Festival film, Eric Christensen. The roundtable discussion will focus on the early era of the Grateful Dead and the Trips Festival, a three-day event in 1966 that involved some of the earliest Dead performances chronicled in Christensen's film. The two-hour monthly show will invite Grateful Dead fans to call in and participate.

The Grateful Dead Channel, dedicated to the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead, launched exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 2007. The channel features music spanning the entire career of the Grateful Dead with unreleased concert recordings and original shows hosted by band members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. The channel also features archival interviews with Jerry Garcia and contributions from Grateful Dead expert David Gans and Dead archivist David Lemieux.

http://www.sirius.com/gratefuldeadchannel

[Published on: 1/17/08]