Jerry Garcia Birthday Art and Music show

Music By Tony Saunders Band and Keystone Revisited

Tony Saunders Presents: A Night of Jazz, Groove & Garcia

August 1

6:00PM - 9:30PM

As we celebrate the birthday of Jerry Garcia, we invite you join us for a powerful evening of music as Tony Saunders takes the stage in Sausalito with two electrifying sets: one featuring the smooth, jazz-infused sounds of the Tony Saunders Band, and the other celebrating the legendary collaboration between Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders with the band Keystone Revisited.

Tony’s journey began in his youth, playing alongside his father, Merl Saunders, and Jerry Garcia during the legendary Monday night jam sessions at the Sand Dunes—an experience that shaped his musical soul. The Tony Saunders Band channels the spirit of those nights, bringing a jazz-forward sound reminiscent of Merl’s band Aunt Monk, where Jerry would often sit in, stretching musical boundaries and blending genres.

Following this dynamic opening set, Keystone Revisited will take you back to the golden era of Garcia/Saunders, Reconstruction, and Legion of Mary—the groups that gave birth to the iconic Live at Keystone recordings. This special performance features:

  • Scot Guberman on keys

  • Jonny Mojo on guitar

  • Stephanie Hartwell Mandella on vocals

  • John Mitchell on drums

  • Jxake Temple on sax

  • And Tony Saunders on bass, who once filled in for the legendary John Kahn

Together, these incredible musicians revive the soulful, exploratory sound that defined an era.

Tony’s latest release, The Romance Continues, is currently signed to Baja/TSR Records, and its first single climbed to #6 on the Billboard charts.

Don’t miss this unforgettable night of deep grooves, jazz journeys, and Garcia magic.

The Art of Jerry Garcia Exhibition

Art by Jerry Garcia

An artist from childhood who was painting in oils by the age of seventeen, Jerry Garcia in his youth thought of himself as “an artist who played music,” Throughout the years of his prodigious musical output he continued drawing and painting.

Around 1983 he began to spend more time studying art, and by 1986 he had completed five large acrylic airbrush compositions which are among his best known works. “Facets II” and “Blue Iceberg” were painted at this time. Jerry did not return to airbrush after 1986; he preferred to continue drawing and painting in watercolor, but he also made a number of images in the computer.

In the watercolors, buoyant shapes and saturated colors infuse sky, earth and water. The nature pictures have a welcoming richness and generosity of spirit. Organic and crystalline structures are rendered in spectral colors.

Jerry is often at his best in the ink paintings - his brush laying down short, animated strokes. The immediacy of ink suited his nature; he enjoyed the bold play of an unforgiving medium that allows no corrections. Serendipitous, automatic, uninhibited, playful or gloomy, some of his most effective work is in ink.

He said “A line on paper is like a note in the air,” and once a mark is made, it can no more be erased than a note, once sounded, can be taken back. The ink painting entitled “Hunter” is a good example of the ink style. Brief and unhesitating, it is made of only a few lines.

SCA will exhibit and offer for sale 40 art works, each sale contributes entirely to supporting SCA, and is accompanied by a Foundation Edition Certificate of Authenticity, ensuring the integrity of each fine art piece.