After sharing a series of teaser videos on social media earlier this week, Bill Kreutzmann has confirmed his return to the stage for a three-night run on the Hawaiian island of Kauai dubbed Mahalo Dead on November 22nd–24th, 2024.
The clues started with a video posted by Kreutzmann showing the Grateful Dead drummer practicing in his garage with the caption, “Last week, a fortune cookie told me I was going to start doing what I love again. How’d it know?”
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Next, he shared a series of fortune cookie-themed videos posted by a lineup of younger musicians including guitarist Jake Brownstein (Eggy), bassist Reed Mathis, keyboardist Adam MacDougall (Circles Around The Sun), guitarist Daniel Donato, and percussionist Jason Hann (The String Cheese Incident). In the clips, each musician cracked open a fortune cookie to reveal their fate, but they only hinted at the announcement. Donato, for example said, “Wow. I’m going to see my favorite state fish, the humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa… Very soon. That’s exciting,” while MacDougal, dressed in a floral Hawaiian shirt, joked, “Well, well, well, well, well, well… At least I got the right shirt,” and Hann quipped, “You can’t spell Hanalei without Hann in it.”
On Thursday morning, Bill K himself finally dropped some details on the upcoming run in a post captioned, “Mahalo Dead! 11 22 23 24 2024 Kauai, HI.” The Rhythm Devil posted again to announce that tickets for the three shows—presumably featuring a lineup of Brownstein, Mathis, MacDougall, Donato, and Hann alongside Kreutzmann himself—will go on sale this Friday, October 18th. Stay tuned to his social media and his website for more information.
The upcoming run in Hawaii will mark Kreutzmann’s return to performing following his August 2023 Dead on the Water series with Tom Hamilton, Daniel Donato, Aron Magner, Kanika Moore, and Jeff Franca. He previously performed in Hawaii—where he has resided since the end of the Grateful Dead’s touring career—in 2021 during his Grateful Mahalo run of livestream-only shows with Billy & The Kids and some very special guests including Billy Strings, Carlos Santana, and the late James Casey.
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