FREE Berkeley Shakedown Street Festival September 17-18, 2016, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
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Notice: 2017 Shakedown Street Festival produced by Nomad Presents is postponed indefinitely. Thank you to all the fans, musicians and vendors that have been involved over the past 3 years! Looking forward to the many great events that 2017 has in store for us heads, Chandran Param, Co-Founder

Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park
Berkeley, CA
10 am - 8 pm

Saturday September 17, 2016
Sunday September 18, 2016

This FREE event will bring together the music of the Grateful Dead, 100 vendors of all kinds of amazing items, SEVA FOUNDATION, some of the best local food you can find, LAGUNITAS BREWERY, and local wines by the glass.

The performances will start at 12 noon, will go throughout the day, and the event will be hosted by none other than the beautiful Sunshine Becker of Furthur!! The festival will host local bands that will perform songs from the Dead catalog as well as originals!

Here is the lineup! Berkeley Shakedown Street Festival 2016 Music Schedule

Master Of Ceremonies Sunshine Becker

Cryptical & Friends

Achilles Wheel

TV Mike & The Scarecrowes

Wake Of The Dead

Hardly Deadly

Easy Wind

DJ Kure All

The Shakedown Street Festival will host over 100 vendors and will include local handmade art, clothing, Jewelry, antiques, imports, nonprofit information and more!

The Shakedown Street Festival is a FREE family friendly event for all ages with a variety of food, beer and wine, a big green grassy lawn to eat, drink, dance, and enjoy the music! There will even be a 'Deaducational' game area for the kids, and creative crafting and coloring in our 'not for kids only' booth!

"Nothin' shakin' on Shakedown Street. Used to be the heart of town.
Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. You just gotta poke around."

What's this festival about? The main motivation for this festival is to help preserve and promote the music and community of the Grateful Dead. Also to help bring it to the younger generation. I was raised by two hippies in Berkeley (and other areas in the Bay) who had connections to the Bay Area local music scene. As a teen, I went to as many Dead shows as I could...even took a very memorable trip, with my now business partner, to a show in Las Vegas. We wanted to recreate the feeling of the parking lot of a show, or the 'Shakedown'. The 'Shakedown' at a Dead show (and every show had one in some form' was where one would go before the show to hang out and reconnect with 'family' members. People would set up little 'shops' and sell their wares or some food they would be making. These same people would tour with the band and do this at every show. It is an amazing sup-culture. The Dead are THE Bay Area home town band from the 1960's. One of the only ones that are still around and still have an ever growing fan base. After they left SF, they made Berkeley their home base. There is a large Dead following in Berkeley, more so then in most other cities of its size. Local Dead Head most definitely see them as icons...especially Jerry, now that he has passed. Some have almost deified him, in a way...the cult of Jerry! Lol Anyway, we are just some Dead Head who loves the music, the community, and the people and wanted to create an event that will make people smile...and help cure worldwide blindness. Can't forget to mention that! :)

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