CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Sunday at the Southern Café and Music Hall a collective of local musicians will join together for the 10th straight year for an annual Halloween show celebrating the music of the Grateful Dead. For a decade now, the Day of the Dead All-Stars have been joining together for a performance that seeks to keep the spirit of the eclectic rock group formed in the 1960s. For guitarist Eric Cope, the group brings together musicians from across the area all in the pursuit of staying true to the songs while adding their own flair. “We strive to perform these songs which I think are this very beloved songbook, one of the greatest American songbooks that there is, and kind of play it with our own voices and stay true to the, exploratory, spirit of freedom of the Grateful Dead,” he said.
The idea for the group came from the group’s keyboard player Charlie Eldridge in 2017 while he and Cope were in a different band called Tequila Mockingbird.
“He had an idea to do a Halloween show, bringing together a bunch of local artists to celebrate the Dead and also just collaborate with each other,” said Cope…