Uncle John's Band
Grateful Dead Nite
- Date
- Friday, October 23, 2026
- Set time
- 8:00 PM EDTDoors 7:00 PM
- Venue
- Skipper's SmokehouseTampa, FL
- Admission
- Not listed
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About the band
Uncle John's Band
Clearwater, FL · since 1989
Uncle John's Band formed in Clearwater in 1989 and is the longest-running Grateful Dead tribute on Florida's west coast. For 24 years its Thursday nights at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa were church for the Tampa Bay faithful; the weekly Thursday now lives at Bayboro Brewing in St. Petersburg, with Skipper's on Fridays and Saturdays. The band — Michael Bortz and Dan DeGregory on drums, Michael Edwards on bass, Alan Gilman on lead guitar, Casey Otto on keys, and Rich Whiteley on rhythm guitar — has played thousands of hours of Dead music from Chicago to Key West and the whole Florida festival circuit: Gasparilla, Magnolia Fest, Orange Blossom Jamboree.
The venue
Skipper's Smokehouse
910 Skipper Rd · Tampa, FL
North Tampa seafood-and-blues institution open since 1980, whose outdoor 'Skipperdome' stage under the oaks holds roughly 700 to 800 and has long been a home for jam, reggae and Dead-tribute bands.