About this Event
The Venue is proud to present David Gans & Broken Angels on Thursday, June 18th.
DOORS = 7pm | SHOW = 8pm
~ Advance Admission ~
Premium Reserved Seating = $25
General Admission = $20
~ Day of Show ~
Additional Door Charge = $5
⭐ About The Event ⭐
In addition to some amazing music performed by David Gans and The Broken Angels, you will have the opportunity to check out and purchase the book David collaborated on with photographer Bill Lemke. Their book, Aging Gratefully: Deadheads Then and Now, is about and a tribute to Deadheads everywhere...especially theTourheads. Around 150 original portraits were taken in a portable studio in parking lots at Dead shows in WI, IL and IN between 1988 and 1991. Then, over a period of 10 years, 40 of them were found again and re-photographed. Then, through recorded conversations with David Gans, their stories were collected and written. The result is a beautiful, black and white coffee table book.
⭐ David Gans & Broken Angels ⭐
David Gans and the Broken Angels began in 1997 as a weekly jam in Berkeley, California. Gans assembled a different lineup of Dead-lovin’ players every week for a set of live music followed by a DJ set by “Dark Star Dan” McGonagle.
The weekly gig lasted through most of 1997 and led to performances in many other venues. Guests included Vince Welnick, Bob Bralove, Henry Kaiser, and other luminaries. Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh joined the Broken Angels for a few benefit shows in the fall and winter of 1997-1998, after which he started doing a similar thing on a national scale as Phil Lesh and Friends.
Gans has assembled the Broken Angels in many locations over the ensuing decades, drawing on an immense national pool of talented players. “We all know the songs, and we all know how to do this kind of collective, conversational improvisation that we learned from the Dead. It is possible to step onto a stage with people you have never met and make genuine magic without rehearsal.”
For this June tour in the midwest, David will be joined by Chicago favorites Joe Day (keyboards and vocals), Janis Wallin (bass), and Brett Baxter (drums). “I met Joe and Janis in the summer of 2018 and we had a great time playing together,” Gans recalls. “We played as the Broken Angels at Garcia’s in Chicago last fall, and we’ve been invited back this summer.
“I will meet Brett for the first time when I arrive for this tour,” Gans adds. “That’s part of the adventure with this Dead thing! I trust Janis to bring us a great partner!”
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David Gans is more than a musician. With his older brother’s encouragement (and guitar), Gans wrote his first song in 1969, at the age of 15 – “and everything in my life has proceeded in a musical way from that moment.” He was performing regularly in public by the time he was 18.
Hearing the Grateful Dead the first time in 1972 was another “before and after” moment. “I didn’t know what was going on in the jams yet, but the songs were just amazing to me – and that’s what drew me into that world.” He found some sympathetic players in Berkeley, some of whom he still jams with occasionally to this day.
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The Venue is brought to you by Fox Valley Music Foundation, dedicated to local music awareness, education and preservation.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
THE VENUE, 21 South Broadway, Aurora, United States
USD 5.00 to USD 29.00
