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Tampa Theatre hosts one-night only Grateful Dead movie meet up on Jerry Garcia’s birthday

A ‘91 Jersey concert will screen.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:18 pm

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Tampa Theatre hosts one-night only Grateful Dead movie meet up on Jerry Garcia’s birthday

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Jerry Garcia would’ve turned 77 years old on Thursday, and every real Deadhead in Tampa Bay is celebrating the late Grateful Dead frontman’s birthday in wonderfully weird ways.

The Florida Mountain Boys’ Saturday tribute to Garcia’s music piques our interest, but this Thursday-night screening of a live Grateful Dead show kicks it all off. Band archivist David Lemieux has chosen the Dead’s June 17, 1991 concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for this one-night-only screening happening throughout North America and in Europe and Australia, too.

Grateful Dead: Meet-Up at the Movies. Thurs., Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m. Tampa Theatre, Tampa. tampatheatre.org.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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