A vibrant, live performance shot of a musician playing a teal-colored six-string electric bass guitar. The person is smiling broadly with their eyes closed, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with an intricately embroidered, colorful "dashiki-style" collar. They are performing on a stage with a bright, abstract red and yellow light display in the background, with a stack of black amplifiers visible on the left. — Oteil Burbridge Credit: Jake Blakesburg / 11E1evenGroup

Ripples of Bob Weir’s death are still reverberating, and as Deadheads keep truckin’ there are still songs to help them find home. Expect Oteil Burbridge to play quite a few of them when he does an intimate gig in Dunedin next month.

Undisputed royalty in the jam band world, the 61-year-old bassist is a founding member of Dead & Co., The Aquarium Rescue Unit, and Tedeschi Trucks Band (the latter included his late brother Kofi Burbridge). He also spent 17 years in the Allman Brothers Band.

While Burbridge is known to Dead fans as a guy whose improvisational skill re-invented classics like “China Doll” and “High Time,” he arrives at Dunedin’s four-day Spring Beer Jam alongside his Aquarium Rescue Unit bandmate Rev. Jeff Mosier, the Blueground Undergrass banjo player and founder who is a jam scene legend himself for the work he’s done with Phish (the crowd will likely lose it if “Good Times Bad Times” makes the setlist).

Burbridge and Mosier will be backed by members of St. Pete’s own kings of prog-rock Anthill Cinema.

Spring Beer Jam 12—set for March 26-29—will also take over The Moon Tower venue on the same block as Dunedin Brewery.

Spring Beer Jam 12: Oteil Burbridge w/Rev. Jeff Mosier/Mike Dillion/The Heavy Pets/Brain Emoji /Joe Marcinek Trio/Jon Ditty/more

Time March 26-29

Location Multiple Locations, ,

Other artists on the bill include New Orleans vibraphonist Mike Dillion who is a Spring Beer Jam artist-in-residence alongside South Florida’s Rob Smiley (the latter wielding the sax as part of Funkin’ Grateful and other acts).

The Heavy Pets will play two sets, and members of the Pets are part of the Funkin’ Grateful outfit also playing twice. Brain Emoji is also on the ticket along with Joe Marcinek Trio, Heavy Pets yacht-rock tribute Yacht Lava, Dunedin Brewery’s Organ Trail collective, rapper Jon Ditty, and more.

Spring Beer Jam organizer, and brewery General Manager Mike Bryant told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that Burbridge will wrap the weekend on Sunday, playing inside Moon Tower facing a mural of his longtime, and late, Aquarium Rescue Unit bandmate Col. Bruce Hampton who passed in 2017.

The weekend kicks off with Dillon’s Punkadelic featuring Beyoncé drummer Nikki Glaspie and pianist Brian Hass.

Bryant’s own Brain Emoji—featuring Marcinek, Jamie Newitt of Heavy Pets, and Bay area bass legend VinnySvoboda—is doing a full collaborative improv set with Dillon on Saturday.

And we haven’t even started talking about the beer.

There’s no cover for Spring Beer Jam 12 happening Thursday-Sunday, March 26-29 at Dunedin Brewery and The Moon Tower in Dunedin.