If you walked in to the Abbey Pub for Terrapin Flyer’s Wednesday night jam on May 8th, you may have noticed something strange after the first couple of songs.  If you stuck around for the second set, and were well-versed in Grateful Dead history, you surely would have put the pieces together and realized that [...]

Terrapin Flyer featuring Mark Karan, Melvin Seals and Tom Constanten Saturday, April 13, 2013 Martyrs – Chicago, IL Set One: China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider, Me & My Uncle, Second that Emotion, Friend of the Devil, Playin’ In the Band>Golden Road, Death Don’t Have No Mercy, Dancin’ In the Streets*, Deal Set Two: Feel [...]

There have been hiatuses, New Year’s Runs, Wood Tours, and gigs En La Playa, but there hasn’t been a full on electric TOUR from Widespread Panic, since they stepped off the stage in Chicago on Halloween 2011.  That changes this week in St. Louis, but the first weekend stop finds them bunking down in our [...]

Doug Hagman and his Grateful Dead project Terrapin Flyer find themselves near the center of a Chicagoland Deadhead community that spills over into the greater music scene.  You can always expect new and exciting faces performing at their weekly Wednesday Dead  Jam at The Abbey Pub (we’ll try to update lineups as they become available [...]

The weekly Dead jam is back in Chicago! Each Wednesday, Terrain Flyer brings a host of  the best Dead-loving musicians from all over the city to jam out at Abbey Pub. They promise to cover a new full album the last Wednesday of each month (next up is Skull and Roses on 3/27).  For their first [...]

It was a family affair back at Martyrs for when Terrapin Flyer hit the stage for its sold out Saturday night gig, with the band welcoming several guests to partake in some good ole Grateful Dead (and, of course, JGB) with Melvin Seals and Mark Karan.  Norman Sands has some nice photos of the proceeding [...]

As far as musicians go, Cornmeal's Wavy Dave Burlingame poses a formidable triple threat these days — throwing down psychedelic banjo jams with his main band, channeling Phil Lesh as the occasional bassist for Terrapin Flyer and serving as an ambassador for our very own Chicago music scene, often dropping by to add some hot [...]

The last giveaway we had for Terrapin Flyer at the Abbey turned out to be one of the hottest tickets in town, so don’t snooze on this one. A few simple clicks and you could be on board to win with free admission to this celebration of Jerry Garcia at The Abbey Pub on Saturday, [...]

It will be a busy August for Terrapin Flyer founder, guitarist and vocalist Doug Hagman.  He’ll hit the road for 9 shows in 11 days with an all-star cast in a routing that spans both Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday and the 17th anniversary of his death (including at stop at Chicago’s Abbey Pub on 8/4).  [...]

Doug Hagman combines the Bobby guitar role with Jerry-like vocals in his Terrapin Flyer project, but lately he’s been taking on some Leshian tendencies, inviting unlikely groups of friends to come together to see what kind of musical magic they can make. This was the case last Friday at The Alley in Highwood when he [...]