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    Lightnin Will Grateful Dead Night

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    Monday, May 11, 2026

    9:00 PM

    Lucinda's

    169 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

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    About This Event

    Lightnin Will's Grateful Dead Night at Lucinda's presents material rooted in the Grateful Dead's late-1960s blend of electric blues, folk and improvisation. The band emerged with a 1967 studio debut for a major label and developed a practice that treats songs as frameworks for extended ensemble interplay. The evening foregrounds that improvisational approach rather than fixed arrangements.

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    Grateful Dead

    Grateful Dead

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    Grateful Dead emerged from the late-1960s American rock scene with a sound rooted in electric blues, folk, and improvisation. Their early catalog, including a 1967 studio debut for a major label, helped formalize an approach that treated songs as frameworks rather than fixed scripts.