In April 2024, Colorado Music Experience and Fiske Planetarium convened “Light • Sound • Dialog — Grateful Dead • Boulder 1969-1981,” a select symposium celebrating the Grateful Dead’s historic concerts on the CU-Boulder campus.
Representatives from Spontanuity, a group of visionary artists who eventually became an integral part of the concert business well into the ’70s, reunited to recreate their psychedelic light show using archival assets from the band’s 1969 performance. The Dead’s musical improvisations were artfully deconstructed by Grateful Dead scholars and musicians David Gans and Micheal Sebulsky, and Colorado native and bassist Kenny Passarelli, whose band Conal Implosion opened for the Dead at the 1969 event.
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