Grateful Dead Experience: The Schwag

Founded in 1991, The Schwag has performed over 3000 concerts throughout the United States. This group averages 150 shows a year and has a working song list of over 200 songs from the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band catalog. For several years band leader Jimmy Tebeau  toured the country performing with Melvin Seals and The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB). The Schwag has opened for many notable acts including String Cheese Incident, Marshall Tucker Band, Leftover Salmon, Sammy Hagar, Little Feat, and Railroad Earth.

For many years The Schwag hosted the Schwagstock music festivals drawing crowds of an average of 5000 people per event several times per summer. Some of the guest musicians to play with The Schwag include Chuck Berry, Bill Nershi from String Cheese Incident, Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman from Leftover Salmon, Butch Trucks from The Allman Brothers Band, Fred Tacket from Little Feat, Mike Gordon from Phish, and Vince Welnick from The Grateful Dead.

The Schwag band is stronger than ever on a perpetual tour performing a different show every night consisting of authentic, high energy organic interpretations of the Grateful Dead song-list.