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David Nelson & Eric Thompson

Between the two of them, Eric & David have played with nearly everyone in the Bay Area -- David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Maria Muldaur, Peter Rowan, Jody Stecher, Laurie Lewis, and many, many more. Eric has been a pillar of the Bay Area folk music scene and a founding member of the Black Mountain Boys, Blue Flame Stringband, California Cajun Orchestra. Bluegrass Intentions and, most recently, Blue Diamond Strings. David started out with Jerry Garcia in the Wildwood Boys, the Black Mountain Boys, and moved on to found New Riders of the Purple Sage, the David Nelson Band, and worked again with Jerry in the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. He also contributed to the Grateful Dead classic recordings Workingman's Dead & American Beauty. He's also written songs with Robert Hunter. At the Grand Ol' Opry In 2006, David sang "Ripple" - the first Grateful Dead song ever to be performed on the Opry. Together Eric & David represent a century's worth of the best of American roots music. They are the originators of classic Americana and the giants whose shoulders the next generation of musicians will stand on. Their duets shows are a delightful blend of musical and verbal interplay.