Louisville’s tribute to Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Dead returns to Louisville for a weekend of great music, local vendors, food, drinks and family fun.
Now in its 10th year, the GrateVille Dead Music Festival will return to the Brown-Forman Amphitheater at Waterfront Park October 18, 19 and 20. The three-day music festival serves as Louisville’s celebration of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead and is chalked full of local and regional Grateful Dead tribute bands celebrating the band’s music. Headlining this year’s lineup is Kentucky Grateful Dead Tribute Band, Born Cross-Eyed, along with Pink Talking Fish and award-winning bluegrass group, Mama Said String Band.
Additional acts include Hot Brown Smackdown, The Pranksters, Electric Garden, Captain Midnight Band, Mr. Please, Solar Flannel, Bibelhauser Brothers, Old & In The Way Tribute with Hog Operation, Tyrone Cotton and Superjam Finale.
The event started in 2015 when local entrepreneur and producer Dennie Humphrey and partner, fellow “deadhead” Ashley Angel produced the very first GrateVille Dead Tribute in honor of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead on Garcia’s birthday. The inaugural event was an unexpected success, drawing a huge crowd of over 2,000 people to the Brown-Forman Amphitheater in Louisville’s scenic Waterfront Park despite a very small advertising campaign and only 30 days of planning.
“It’s been ten years, and we are excited to enter the next phase of growth for this festival,” says event co-founder, Dennie Humphrey. “When we first came up with this thing we knew it would be special, but it has turned into real magic, and here we are at the end of a decade and the beginning of the next.”
Grateville Dead supports the Waterfront Park and the City of Louisville, as well as local businesses by drawing regional fans to the city and providing a clean, safe, and family oriented event. The event not only works to boost the local economy, but it also supports the arts and further its mission to provide a highly successful venue for local vendors in a secure, contained and inviting location.
Tickets for the festival are on sale now with single day prices varying from $20-$40 or a weekend pass for $70. Children 12 and under are free with a ticket holding adult. Admission also gets you access to the official after-parties each night at High Horse Bar.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit grateville.com.
