Performing to critical acclaim for over 20 years and over 3000 shows, Dark Star Orchestra ​ continues the Grateful Dead live concert experience. Their shows are built off the Dead's ​ extensive catalog and the talent of these seven fine musicians. On any given night, the band will ​ perform a show based on a set list from the Grateful Dead's 30 years of extensive touring or use ​ their catalog to program a unique set list for the show. This allows fans both young and old to ​ share in the experience. By recreating set lists from the past, and by developing their own sets ​ of Dead songs, Dark Star Orchestra offers a continually evolving artistic outlet within this ​ musical canon. Honoring both the band and the fans, Dark Star Orchestra's members seek out ​ the unique style and sound of each era while simultaneously offering their own informed ​ improvisations.

Dark Star Orchestra offers much more than the sound of the Grateful Dead, they truly ​ encapsulate the energy and the experience. It's about a sense of familiarity. It's about a feeling ​ that grabs listeners and takes over. It's about that contagious energy...in short, it's about the ​ complete experience and consistent quality show that the fan receives when attending a Dark ​ Star Orchestra show.

Dark Star Orchestra has performed throughout the entire United States, including a sold out ​ debut at Colorado’s Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater, plus shows in Europe and the Caribbean ​ with the band touching down in seven different countries. DSO continues to grow its fan base ​ by playing at larger venues for two and even three-night stands, as well as performing at major ​ music festivals including Bonnaroo, Milwaukee's SummerFest, The Peach Music Festival, Jam ​ Cruise, Wanee Festival, SweetWater 420 Festival, Mountain Jam, and many more.

In addition to appearing at some of the nation's top festival, Dark Star Orchestra hosts its own ​ annual music festival and campaign gathering, titled the "Dark Star Jubilee", currently in its ​ eighth year where DSO headline all three nights and are joined by a mix of established and up ​ and coming national touring acts. Beyond the shores of the United States, DSO has taken its ​ internationally-acclaimed Grateful Dead tribute to the beaches of Jamaica in the dead of winter ​ for the past six years, with their event appropriately titled 'Jam in the Sand'. Featuring an ​ ocean-side stage, DSO sets up camp to perform shows for four nights along the tropical sands ​ of an all-inclusive resort, selling out the event each year for hundreds of lucky attendees.

Fans and critics haven't been the only people caught up in the spirit of a Dark Star show. The ​ band has featured guest performances from six original Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Bob ​ Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Vince Welnick, Tom Constanten and ​ even toured with longtime Dead soundman, Dan Healy. Other notable guests have included ​ Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish, Keller Williams, Warren Haynes, Steve Kimock, Peter ​ Rowan, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and many more.

"For us it's a chance to recreate some of the magic that was created for us over the years," ​ keyboardist and vocalist Rob Barraco explains. "We offer a sort of a historical perspective at ​ what it might have been like to go to a show in 1985, 1978 or whenever. Even for Deadheads

who can say they've been to a hundred shows in the 90s, we offer something they never got to ​ see live."