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Wake the Dead at Grizzly Peak Winery

When six top Bay Area musicians realized they shared as deep a love for the songs of the Grateful Dead as they did for traditional Celtic tunes, some brand-new music sprang up and started partying.

WAKE THE DEAD bands together six of the best-known and most respected players in the west. Bassist Cindy Browne is equally at home in folk and jazz, touring globally as the musical fusion go-to gal. Singer, fiddler, and octave mandolinist Danny Carnahan is an award-winning songwriter whose original Irish-tinged songs are popular worldwide. Kevin Carr is a musical triple-treat, renowned as a dance fiddler, a pennywhistler, and Irish piper par excellence. Sylvia Herolds delicious vocal phrasing can also be heard on her solo recordings and her performances with Euphonia. Paul Kotapish is known far and wide for his work with Kevin Burkes Open House, and for his blazing guitar and mandolin with The Hillbillies From Mars and Euphonia. And Latin percussionist Brian Rice rounds out the bands groove engine.

Grizzly Peak Winery is the epitome of a local, family run business. The Silbowitz family, Bay Area transplants, grow their grapes on 40 acres tucked away in a corner of the valley in the shadow of Grizzly Peak. Their wines have won awards all over the West. Their support of the local community and the arts and music in particular is reflected in their willingness to open their facilities to the myriad of artists travelling up and down I-5 as well as to local musicians of all genres. Concerts are invariably described as being very special experiences by anyone who has attended them. Just the kind of venue for a show featuring Wake The Dead.