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Welcome to the Grateful Ed Blog! We may be hard-working education advocates, but we know how important it is to take time to kick back and relax. We especially love to do that through live music—that’s the culture Grateful Ed was founded on. Check out our team’s latest and greatest musical adventures in our ‘Grateful Ed’ series.

As The Crow Flies | Tim Taylor

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As The Crow Flies is the new band led by Chris Robinson, former frontman for the Black Crowes. It’s been more than four years since the Crowes split and the 17…

Andy Rotherham | Tedeschi Trucks Band

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Warner Theater, Washington, D.C. | February 16, 2018 If there is a hotter live act on the road right now than Tedeschi Trucks Band, I don’t know it. Alternatively scorching and soulful,…

Andy Rotherham | Dead & Company

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Musical Act: Dead & Company Venue: Capitol One Arena City: Washington, D.C. Just before Thanksgiving, Dead & Company rolled into Washington, D.C. to play Capitol One arena as part of…

Tim Taylor | Austin City Limits

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Three days of music in the live-music capital of the U.S. with my son, who is a sophomore in high school, his buddy, my brother-in-law and his wife. Zilker Park…

Andy Rotherham | Phil Lesh And Friends

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  In the fall, on Thursday’s, I teach at the University of Virginia. It’s a large class, more than two hundred students, so “teacher voice” matters. Except last week I arrived…