Terrapin Flyer Night 2

For the past 25 years Terrapin Flyer has toured with musicians from the Grateful Dead community and become a fixture on the national music scene, playing venues and music festivals around the country. The band is known for authentic interpretations of rare and classic Dead songs and has a dedicated following among Dead and jam band fans.

It started in 1999 at the Boulevard Cafe in Chicago as a Grateful Dead jam night and soon became a touring band. In 2001 Terrapin Flyer began touring with Vince Welnick. In 2004 they toured with Melvin Seals (Hammond organ in the Jerry Garcia Band), and in 2006 with Tom Constanten. Some tours included first-ever lineups featuring Melvin Seals, Tom Constanten, and Mark Karan (from Ratdog). Those were long-term bonds — Terrapin Flyer toured with Melvin Seals for 15 years while he continued with Melvin Seals & the JGB. With Constanten they were mentioned in Rolling Stone's "Guide to the Grateful Dead."

Many fan-recorded shows from the band's history are available: https://archive.org/details/TerrapinFlyer

Terrapin Flyer has evolved over the past quarter century and currently features musicians who have toured with members of the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band. At its core Terrapin Flyer is a band of deadheads committed to attempting to recapture the spirit and essence of the Grateful Dead by incorporating the roots music of jazz, blues, and bluegrass into jams and bringing the music to new and similar places.

Current lineup:
- Josh Olken — lead guitar
- Wavy Dave — bass
- Jon Reed — drums
- Michael Cole — keyboards
- Doug Hagman — rhythm guitar