Come for the preshow to Santana and Doobie Brothers and groove to the best tribute of the legendary Englishtown 1977 show featuring Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Marshall Tucker Band!On September 3rd, 1977, The Grateful Dead headlined one of the largest and most musically successful concerts of all time at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. In addition to the Grateful Dead, who had just completed its legendary Spring/Summer 1977 tour featuring a batch of new material from Terrapin Station, the show also featured the Dead family’s New Riders of the Purple Sage and the good-time, southern rock of The Marshall Tucker Band. This tribute extravaganza will feature  selections from each band’s sets that day along with other deep cuts and original music inspired these three bands .​As Michael Falzarano tells the tale!Everywhere I toured with The New Riders of the Purple Sage for the past 20 years someone would come up to me at almost every show and say “I saw you guys at Englishtown.” Long story short, it seemed like a good idea to put a band together and pay tribute to that legendary September 3, 1977 show. With that, The Englishtown Project was born. The intention was to play one show at The Brooklyn Bowl, NY and just have some fun with it. That one show has turned into upwards of 150 shows. Go figure!The Mission!The mission is to pay tribute to the music of all three iconic bands that played that day in 1977: The Grateful Dead, The Marshall Tucker Band and The New Riders of the Purple Sage.  There were over 60 songs played that day, all of which are instantly recognizable. We play an ever-changing mix of the songs at every show along with some other songs not played that day and original songs inspired by the music of these three iconic bands. These bonus tunes are true to the history and legacy of the three bands. So if the spirit moves you and you have a request, shout it out. It just might get played.