Jerry Garcia Birthday Art and Music show
A Night of Music, Groove & Garcia
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.
Keystone Revisited & Max Gail share music straight from the heart
August 1
5:00PM - 8:00PM
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 of music that was played by Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders. The group is called Keystone Revisited, and they always fill you with a lot of that old music that was played 53 years ago on the live at Keystone recordings.
The Keystone Band revisits the music with Scott Guberman, who moved from the east coast to be entrenched with Music By The Dead and Jerry. He was lucky enough to get to play with Phil Lesh's band. Tony was lucky enough to play Jerry and Merl at 18 years old. So it is inside him what comes out of the music.
He has Jonny Mojo on guitar, Stephanie Harwell Mandella on Vocals with Scott and Jonny. John Mitchell on Drums. Jake Temple plays the same sax that Martin played with Merl and Jerry, and the sweet sounds come out, putting smiles on everyones faces. They played in Las Vegas after a Dead and Company show and kept the crowd dancing till 3 am. These guys put the effort into making a great show, and you can feel it. Max Gail, Merl's Best friend, opens the show and will play what is in his heart!!!!
So we have two Emmy Winners performing On This show: Tony and Max each have won Emmys.
Don’t miss this unforgettable night of deep grooves, jazz journeys, and Garcia magic.