Cosmic Charlie: High Energy Grateful Dead – Acoustic & Electric

Get ready for a special evening with Cosmic Charlie, the Southeast’s longest running Grateful Dead tribute! The show will open with a rare Cosmic Charlie acoustic set (w/special guests TBA!), and then the band will launch into full electric jam mode for the remainder of the night. Come enjoy an evening of live DEAD in a great sounding venue!
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“Cosmic Charlie really is a great band – these guys do this music the way it should be done: having the conversation in their own voices.”

-David Gans, Grateful Dead Hour

Cosmic Charlie was born in the musical Mecca of Athens, Georgia. From its summer 1999 inception, the band swiftly cemented its reputation as a band that puts a unique and personal twist on the Grateful Dead catalogue. Cosmic Charlie is a Dead cover band for folks that are ambivalent about Dead cover bands.

Rather than mimicking the Dead exactly, Cosmic Charlie chooses to tap into the Dead’s energy and style as a foundation on which to build. The result is healthy balance of creativity and tradition, where both the band and its audience are taken to that familiar edge with the sense that, music is actually being MADE here tonight.

Moving and shaking even the most skeptical of Deadheads, Cosmic Charlie storms into a town and plays with an energy that eludes other bands, an energy that sometimes eluded the Dead themselves. Those precious moments during Dead jams when the synchronicity is there and all is right with the world – these are the moments that Cosmic Charlie relishes and feverishly welcomes with open arms. Clearly, Cosmic Charlie’s audiences are also eager to partake in these moments, and together with the band, they have indulged in many memorable evenings.

For most shows, Cosmic Charlie walks onstage without a setlist. Any Dead tune is fair game at any moment. “Inspiration, move me brightly” is Cosmic Charlie’s modus operandi, allowing the music to truly plays the band.