DEAD BOWL: Half Step - Grateful Dead Tribute
About This Event
Live event at Brooklyn Bowl
About Grateful Dead Tribute
Staged as a live set at Brooklyn Bowl, this Grateful Dead Tribute traces the band’s long New York afterlife through song and improvisation. Half Step leads the performance with material associated with the Grateful Dead, moving between rootsy rock and pop-facing melodies. The Dead’s history in the city is durable, from marathon runs at Madison Square Garden to the wider downtown tape-trading culture that helped keep the repertoire circulating. The most telling moments arrive when the band treats the originals less as artifacts than as frameworks for risk.
About the Artists
Half Step
Half Step is a rock/pop group heard in New York City on stages such as Brooklyn Bowl, where they perform their Grateful Dead tribute set, “Half Step – Grateful Dead Tribute.” The band’s history includes performing with Grateful Dead, a credential that shapes their repertoire and sense of lineage.
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead emerged from the late-1960s American rock scene with a sound rooted in electric blues, folk, and improvisation. Their early catalog, including a 1967 studio debut for a major label, helped formalize an approach that treated songs as frameworks rather than fixed scripts.