Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission

August 29 & 30 2025

8:00

A Tribute Play

A Dead Origin Story

One Weekend Only- Friday and Saturday August 29 and 30, 8pm

Jerry Garcia In The Lower Mission- first performances...!!!

Join author and performer Richard Montoya with live music by J. Raoul Brody and David Gans,  with performances by Dena Martinez, Aidaa Peerzada, Brian Rivera.

In lieu of the postponement of the premiere engagement of the show- join us for a special event featuring the first public presentation of select performances of this new work about the imagined childhood, memories, dreams, ghosts and the beginnings of Jerry Garcia- in the Lower Mission. 

Garcia story, San Francisco story, Dead Music story.

Montoya explores the childhood events that shaped an American Folk Hero and rock God - from his grandmother's Irish home in The Excelsior through The Mission to the docks of a city where the historic wharfs held a wonderland for the young Garcia Brothers and a generation of kids in a City where everybody it seemed stood on the line at Bethlehem Steel or played music in the vast taverns of the Lower Mission!

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