Dead & Company Welcome Renée Fleming for “Space” Vokal improvisation, debut Jimmy Cliffs “The harder you come”.

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At the weekend, Dead & Company returned to the sphere of Las Vegas to trigger the second framework of her three -stage 2025 Residency. After a year with outstanding stagings at the event location, the JAM predecessors still consistently increase the use with new approaches, awesome historical homage and setlist surprises that better meet the immersive potential of sphere. The first three stagings of their new series were some of their most inventive; After a residency debut was presented by Kingfish’s “pleading” and the topic of teasing The white lotus On Thursday, April 17th, the band’s appearances on Friday and Saturday brought rare cover, a live debut and a brave exploration “Space” with a very special guest.

Dead & Company started her show on Friday evening with an exuberant “Alabama -GetaWay”, which brought the crowd in high mood for an energetic and generally uplifting first sentence. The highlight of this sprint was undoubtedly the debut cover of the ensemble by Jimmy Cliff’s legendary reggae classic “The Harder The Come” from 1972, which was famous for his recording of the same name in his music film of the same name. Dead & Company’s first appearance in the standard, which was translated into her steering house in the solo repertoire of Jerry Garcia until his time, was led by stirring vocals by bassist Oteil Burbridge.

After D&C wrapped the first framework with a sweet treatment of Garcias “Sugaaree”, D&C shifted her tone for her second sentence with the traditional “cold rain and snow”, followed by “valued prophet”, “Eyes of the World” and “Row Jimmy”. The fans were waiting with Bated Breath when the bandmates Bob Weir, John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti left the stage for a particularly tense “drums”, which was charged with the anticipation for the celebrated classic singer Renée Fleming, whose participation drummer Mickey Hart announced on Thursday. “I have been working with Renée for decades,” Hart wrote on Facebook. “Often with my late popular brother Zakir Hussain in the mix. Some of the best times of my life.”

When the last beats of “drums” sound, Burbridge and drummer Jay Lane left the stage to make the way while Fleming continued and took their place next to hard. While hard beyond the tonic tone poetry, Fleming ended with her five-time Grammy and Kennedy Center, which was a lyrical poetry for a tranchic vocal in-improvisation and fluctuated between glowing outbreaks of laughter, the stamped consonance and the up-and-coming extended notes. At the end of the unprecedented cooperation, the rest of the band rose again and moved fluently in “days in between”, and then fell on a touching cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin ‘on Heaven’s Door” and a finale of “Ripple”.

On Saturday, Dead & Company cooled down from two unforgettable evenings with a gentler performance, which the participants still treated some outstanding songs. After the group broke their second performance of Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally” with a romp through “Dancing in the Streets” and the strolling, blends groove from “Truck ‘”, which they debut them from their dead forever at the second show. Garcia band. In the second set on Sunday, the group excavated another cover from this corner of the canon with a warm and psychedelic run by the 1968 cut of the Beatles from 1968. Shortly thereafter, the Sext set the third weekend in the 2025 ball with the eighth “another Saturday evening”.

Tickets and more information about the Spherecy’s Spherecy’s Spherency can be found at Deadandcompany.com. Read on for the complete set lists from Friday and Saturday evening.

Dead & Company
Ball – Las Vegas
04/18/25
Set I: Alabama Short vacation, Shakedown Street, Althea, the harder you come*, Mississippi Half-step-Utown Toodeloo> Sugaree
Set II: Cold rain and snow, valued prophet> eyes of the world, Jimmy series, drums> room+> days between the street, feel down
Notes:
* Dead & Company debut
+ with Renée Fleming

Dead & Company
Ball – Las Vegas
04/19/25
Set I: Tancin ‘on the streets, Truckin’, Sally, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Casey Jones lie down
Set II: Scarlach red begonia, fire on the mountain, it is gone, St. Stephen, drums, space, love cleverness, women with brown eyes, hell in a bucket, brokedown palace, another Saturday evening