September, 22 2007

THE JOINT

8771 Pico Blvd.,
W. Los Angeles, CA,, 90035

8:00 p.m.

$20.00

21 & OVER

LIMITED CAPACITY

DONNA JEAN & THE TRICKSTERS www.donnajeanandthetricksters.com/s...ml

Donna Jean Thatcher (Godchaux MacKay) was born to sing, and over the course of time she’s done so with people like Elvis Presley, Percy Sledge, Boz Scaggs, and Jerry Garcia. Now she has a new band that she’s quite certain is on a creative par with anything she’s ever done. “This band is a perfect fit for me as a singer/songwriter,” she said recently, “and I hope to be doing this for a long time to come. We’re having so much fun with this music!” The Grateful Dead alumna has joined up with six members of the next musical generation – Mookie Siegel (David Nelson Band; formerly Phil & Friends, RatDog), Wendy Lanter (Hope in Time), and Jeff Mattson, Tom Circosta, Klyph Black and Dave Diamond (Zen Tricksters) to form Donna Jean and the Tricksters. Look out! Things have come full circle and anything’s possible. Oh, sure, they’re gonna jam. But the band has seven vocalists and an incredible array of songwriting talent, and DJ&tT is going to make waves in ways you’d never anticipate. She moved to San Francisco, married Keith Godchaux, and spent the 1970s as a vocalist in the Grateful Dead as well as the Jerry Garcia Band. After life with the Dead, she and Keith created the Heart of Gold Band with drummer Greg Anton. Following various side trips, she resumed serious focus on her singing in the ‘90s, recording a new Heart of Gold Band album, At the Table, and singing with Phil & Friends and her own Donna Jean Band. But it was at a benefit concert for the Dead’s Rex Foundation in 2006, The Black Tie-Dyed Ball, that she bonded with the Tricksters and decided that she’d found her future.


NATE LAPOINTE BAND www.myspace.com/natelapointeband

The Nate LaPointe Band is comprised of players from a strong jazz background, with rootsy and eclectic songwriting and improvisation as its basis. When he's not touring with the Nate LaPointe Band, Nate performs 150 shows/year with SoCal's premiere Grateful Dead Tribute band Cubensis among other projects.


DRAE (MEMBERS FROM BETTER CHEMISTRY) www.myspace.com/draemusic

Drae was started in August 2006 by Dave Monaco, Ray Green, and Ed Collins. The music consists of funky accustic roots, with alittle reggae and a southern rock twist. Some of Drae's live song were writen many years ago Dave Monaco and Ray Green. Take a Look was writen by Ed Collins and Dave Monaco in 2006. Drae is a side project with some of the members of Better Chemistry. Rene Casas bass like a bulldozer, Monaco's smooth lead vocal and steady rythem, Ray Greens twangy guitar and Ed Collins amazing drum sounds and production puts together quite a sound. With inspiration like the Grateful Dead, Rush, Allman Brothers, Peter Tosh and many more this act will definatly catch your attention.

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