Always love DSO.... outdoors was even better than years past
by C. L. on 5/15/23The Senate - ColumbiaRating: 4 out of 5Hope they come back to Refinery again next year! nice place would love to other shows there.
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Dark Star Orchestra on Tour
More than just a tribute band, the seven members of the Dark Star Orchestra are dedicated to the Grateful Dead live experience, best known for playing full setlists picked from their 2,000+ concerts. The Grateful Dead's live show is legendary, a catalog of improvisation traded and celebrated across decades. The Dark Star Orchestra re-creates the Dead's intra-band interplay and pastoral guitar soloing. Remarkably devoted and true to the source material, DSO tailors their arrangements, gear and tempos to the era of the evening. Some nights find the DSO creating original setlists, playing sets from the Jerry Garcia Band or even jamming with members of the Dead themselves.
Dark Star Orchestra in Concert
Formed in Chicago in 1997, Dark Star Orchestra provides generations of fans with the chance to experience entire Grateful Dead sets, song by song. Named after "Dark Star," a part of the Dead's set known for exploratory jams, DSO rose to national prominence in 1998 when Mike Gordon and John Fishman of Phish joined them for a performance of the Dead's 1983 Halloween show. DSO promptly became a touring sensation: At 2,800 shows and counting, DSO have played more shows than the Grateful Dead themselves. They ultimately enlisted keyboardist Rob Barraco of Phil Lesh and Friends, the Other Ones and the 2003 touring version of the Dead. The DSO have played Bonnaroo and Milwaukee's SummerFest, and they've been hosting their own annual fests for years - the Dark Star Jubilee in Ohio and the Jam in the Sand in Jamaica. Perhaps the most important honor for DSO, though, is enlisting actual members of the Grateful Dead, having performed on stage accompanied by Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean Godchaux, Vince Welnick and Tom Constanten. A 2018 show even found guitarist Jeff Mattson playing Jerry Garcia's custom-made guitar, "Wolf," which the Dead founder used for two decades.
Setlists
- 1.Feel Like a Stranger (Grateful Dead cover)
- 2.They Love Each Other > (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 3.The Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon cover)
- 4.Dire Wolf (Grateful Dead cover)
- 5.Cassidy (Bob Weir cover)
- 6.Big Railroad Blues (Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover)
- 7.The Music Never Stopped (Grateful Dead cover)
- 8.Don't Ease Me In (Henry Thomas cover)
Set 1:
- 1.Ramble On Rose (Grateful Dead cover)
- 2.Black-Throated Wind (Bob Weir cover)
- 3.Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Grateful Dead cover)
- 4.Beat It on Down the Line (Jesse Fuller cover)
- 5.Row Jimmy (Grateful Dead cover)
- 6.Jack Straw (Grateful Dead cover)
- 7.Let It Rock (Chuck Berry cover)
- 8.Cumberland Blues (Grateful Dead cover)
- 9.El Paso (Marty Robbins cover)
- 10.To Lay Me Down (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 11.Weather Report Suite (Grateful Dead cover)
- 12.China Doll (Grateful Dead cover)
Set 2:
- 13.Ship of Fools (Grateful Dead cover)
- 14.Big River (Johnny Cash cover)
- 15.Black Peter (Grateful Dead cover)
- 16.Around and Around (Chuck Berry cover)
- 17.Dark Star Jam (Grateful Dead cover)
- 18.Spanish Jam (Grateful Dead cover)
- 19.U.S. Blues (Grateful Dead cover)
- 20.Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead cover)
- 21.One More Saturday Night (Bob Weir cover)
Encore
- 22.Casey Jones (Grateful Dead cover)
Set 1:
- 1.Sugaree (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 2.Run for the Roses (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 3.Box of Rain (Grateful Dead cover)
- 4.Next Time You See Me (Junior Parker cover)
- 5.Mission in the Rain (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 6.I'll Be With Thee ([traditional] cover)
- 7.That's What Love Will Make You Do (Little Milton cover)
- 8.From the Heart of Me (Grateful Dead cover)
- 9.Midnight Moonlight (Old & In the Way cover)
- 10.Like a Road Leading Home (Albert King cover)
- 11.Deal (Jerry Garcia cover)
Set 2:
- 12.The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff cover)
- 13.The Strange Man (Dorothy Love Coates cover)
- 14.They Love Each Other (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 15.Easy Wind (Grateful Dead cover)
- 16.Lonesome and a Long Way From Home (Delaney & Bonnie cover)
- 17.Drums > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 18.Space > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 19.The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Traffic cover)
- 20.Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills cover)
- 21.Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan cover)
Encore
- 22.Ripple (Grateful Dead cover)
Set 1:
- 1.Alabama Getaway > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 2.Promised Land (Chuck Berry cover)
- 3.They Love Each Other > (Jerry Garcia cover)
- 4.El Paso (Marty Robbins cover)
- 5.Tennessee Jed (Grateful Dead cover)
- 6.Cassidy (Bob Weir cover)
- 7.Althea > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 8.Looks Like Rain (Bob Weir cover)
- 9.Far From Me (Grateful Dead cover)
- 10.The Music Never Stopped (Grateful Dead cover)
Set 2:
- 11.China Cat Sunflower > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 12.I Know You Rider > ([traditional] cover)
- 13.C.C. Rider (Elvis Presley cover)
- 14.Peggy-O ([traditional] cover)
- 15.Lost Sailor > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 16.Saint of Circumstance > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 17.Drums > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 18.Space > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 19.Wharf Rat > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 20.I Need a Miracle > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 21.Bertha > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 22.Good Lovin' (The Olympics cover)
Encore
- 23.U.S. Blues (Grateful Dead cover)
- 24.Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Sly & the Family Stone cover)
- 1.Day Tripper (The Beatles cover)
- 2.West L.A. Fadeaway (Grateful Dead cover)
- 3.Beat It on Down the Line (Jesse Fuller cover)
- 4.Loose Lucy (Grateful Dead cover)
- 5.My Brother Esau (Grateful Dead cover)
- 6.Keep On Growing (Derek and the Dominos cover)
- 7.Candyman (Grateful Dead cover)
- 8.Passenger (Grateful Dead cover)
- 9.The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff cover)
- 10.Greatest Story Ever Told (Bob Weir cover)
Set 2:
- 11.Man Smart, Woman Smarter (King Radio cover)
- 12.Mr. Charlie (Grateful Dead cover)
- 13.He's Gone (Grateful Dead cover)
- 14.New Speedway Boogie (Grateful Dead cover)
- 15.Drums > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 16.Space > (Grateful Dead cover)
- 17.Unbroken Chain (Grateful Dead cover)
- 18.Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ([traditional] cover)
- 19.I'll Take a Melody (Frankie Miller cover)
- 20.The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion) (Grateful Dead cover)
Encore
- 21.Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane cover)
TICKET PRICES!!!!
by Nicole on 3/21/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5First of all, so happy to see 30ish dollar tickets....this is how EVERY concert should be priced, NO MATTER WHO THE ARTIST!!! & DSO, you were amazing! Played a great setlist! Will be going to see you at Penn's Peak! Thank you, for a real good time! 💀 ⚡ ❤️
Awesome
by R. D. on 3/21/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5DSO did an awesome show up in Wilkes-Barre PA sold out love the concert. Great music great people nice venue.
Awesome show
by Lorilip on 3/20/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5Awesome performance.. Crowd on their feet the entire tome. Great tunes, great play set
Dark Star Kirby Center
by Bill C on 3/20/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5The venue was great, sound was excellent, the band performed a great show and there were so many wonderful people there having a great time.
Just keep tuckin!
by Funky Pham 13 on 3/20/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 4 out of 5Was nice being back at the Kirby been years but had a good time band was on point enjoyed the setlist
Great night out
by Policarej on 3/20/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5Was a great night out me and my husband celebrated our 32nd anniversary. We stood the whole concert, excellent show ,great for all ages. Any dead heads out there that never seen them, definitely go if they come by your area you will not regret it!!
Great show
by Dirt bag on 3/20/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5The show was great as always and the venue (Kirby Center) was awesome and very frendly
Loved, Loved, Loved
by TnT on 3/20/23F.M. Kirby Center - Wilkes-BarreRating: 5 out of 5Such a great show. DSO never fails. Thank you again
Magnificent
by Souljourn on 3/15/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5Shining all the time! Thank you all for the energy, true love, & peace 🌹🪄🌹
Magnificent
by Souljourn on 3/15/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5Shining all the time!!! Thank you all for the energy, true love & peace & 🌹🪄🌹
Wow
by TD on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5Awesome show! First time experience seeing DSO. Very good sound. Well worth the money.
Always a blast
by Fanner on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5I am never disappointed in the DSO shows. They always find a way to keep it fresh. Lisa’s encore of Oh, Darling was a show stopper. Been to at least 20 of their shows now!
The band was AWESOME !!!
by Sean36r on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 4 out of 5Beer and cocktails were way way way way way too expensive !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DSO
by ROCNYGUY on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5Played an original show (of covers) They picked a fantastic setlist including a great cover or two of traffic.
Hand pucked incredible setlist
by Johnnybgoode on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5The band did an outstanding job once again.They did not recreate a show from the past but instead srote a incredible set list for us..THANK YOU FOR A REAL GOOD TIME!!!!!!
Awesome experience
by JIM S on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5As a long time Head I stopped going to shows after Jerry G passed recently I have been turned on to BMFS and JRAD which got me back into the scene. This was my first 2 DSO shows and they were amazing. Lucked out and got front row for Saturday night and Friday was only a few rows back.Cant wait to see them again!!
Albany doesn't suck
by Ken on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5Venue was a classic older style theatre ,well kept,sound was awesome , had a great time
Patchouli in the air at DSO
by Edy Lazer🤘 on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5That's one thing about these guys they're very organic compared to cough cough the other band dead experience that plays big theaters like these guys Joe and the boys that other band they're really good too I like them both in different ways with dark star again very organic the Patchouli Aura is in the air with the Dark Star and I love Lisa🤗 I saw Jeff the guitar player on the way into the show thanks for carrying the flame and also Rob the drummer on the way out and I was calling him Dino the other drummer I felt bad because I was telling Rob how I liked his podcast that I didn't even have his name right now that was embarrassing anyway love you Dark Star Orchestra you guys keep carrying that flame Lisa you keep burning that Sage to get rid of those evil spirits in those theaters I remember talking to you about that one time too anyway what an amazing singer you are Lisa absolutely amazing heartfelt you touch my spirit when you sing even if you're just doing that little part in the music never stopped you always hit it anyway enough of me Edy Lazer says peace out
Dark Star at the Palace in Albany
by Beth on 3/14/23The Palace Theatre Albany - AlbanyRating: 5 out of 5So sad I wasn’t able to attend. We had a snowstorm in the Catskills where I live and the roads were bad. Didn’t want to chance it. Hope it was a good show for those who made it. I’m never disappointed at a Dark Star show. Love them.