Mark Diomede and Friends

Mark Diomede decided on music at fifteen, after his first Grateful Dead show in 1973, and spent the late 1980s and 1990s leading Solar Circus — signed to Relix Records — and then Juggling Suns, which toured the United States and Japan. He still works the Central New Jersey circuit under his own name with a rotating cast, playing Dead material alongside classic rock and his own songs, and turns up in the Be5D project built out of the Juggling Suns lineage. Billed separately from Diomede & Donovan, the duo he also plays in.