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New Year’s Eve with the China Cats Grateful Dead Tribute
December 31, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - January 1, 2024 @ 12:00 am
$45New Year’s Eve in Santa Cruz. Ring in the New Year 2024 with the China Cats Grateful Dead tribute and jam band goodness on Sunday, December 31 starting at 8:00 pm!
Early ticket discounts, make plans to join the celebration in the beautiful vintage ballroom at the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Chris G. Matthews Hall:
$45 | All Ages
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3qLqFHj
The China Cats are the Bay area’s premiere Grateful Dead Tribute band, performing with the same lineup of players for more than 14 years. They competently play over 200 songs the Grateful Dead performed during their career.
“One of the premier tribute bands in Northern California. The group has spent years infusing the classic sensibilities of the Dead’s catalog with their own flair and energy” – Good Times, Santa Cruz
“The China Cats aren’t a cover band,” says Nicholas Meriwether, archivist of the Grateful Dead collection at UC Santa Cruz. “They approach the Dead’s work with the same kind of reverence and sophistication that the Dead themselves showed in their own forays into American roots music. “When you listen to the Cats,” Meriweather adds, “old favorites take on new lives, revealing facets that will delight and amaze even jaded listeners. These guys aren’t copycats — their sets demonstrate how the Dead’s music now is a part of the great American songbook, alongside the giants who first inspired the Dead.”
“Thank you for the terrific performance on the Church Street Stage! You were great and the crowd thoroughly enjoyed your performance. It was all we hoped for.” – Ellen Primick, Cabrillo Music Festival
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Website: www.thechinacats.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thechinacats