Phil Lesh is 1st member of Grateful Dead at Harlem’s Apollo Theater | ‘Don’t Tell Me This Country Ain’t Go No Heart: A Benefit for Voter Participation’ | HeadCount

by deadheads | (~);} | Aug 15, 2018 | Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh will be the 1st member of Grateful Dead to ever play at at Harlem’s Apollo Theater!
| ‘Don’t Tell Me This Country Ain’t Go No Heart: A Benefit for Voter Participation’ |

HEADCOUNT AND DAYGLO PRESENT

PHIL LESH & TERRAPIN FAMILY BAND

w/ Harlem Gospel Choir, Nicki Bluhm, Eric Krasno, Talib Kweli and Robert Randolph
A Benefit for Voter Participation

On September 7, HeadCount, the non-partisan organization that promotes involvement in our democracy, is teaming up with Peter Shapiro’s Dayglo Presents to host Don’t Tell Me This Country Ain’t Got No Heart: A Benefit for Voter Participation, a special concert event at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, featuring a performance from Phil Lesh & Very Special Friends.

Lesh will become the first Grateful Dead member to play the famed Harlem venue, where he will be joined by the Harlem Gospel Choir and frequent collaborators, The Terrapin Family Band (Grahame Lesh, Jason Crosby, Ross James and Alex Koford), plus vocalist Nicki Bluhm, Grammy-winning guitarist Eric Krasno, hip-hop artist and activist Talib Kweli, and sacred steel guitar maestro Robert Randolph.

“This is a moment when everybody needs to participate in the political process,” says Dayglo founder and HeadCount board member, Peter Shapiro. “It’s also time to bring the music of the Grateful Dead to the epic Apollo Theater, with the purpose of raising as much money as possible to support widespread participation in the November elections. It’s going to be an amazing and celebratory evening, especially since this will be the first time these songs have been performed at the Apollo.”

Don’t Tell Me This Country Aint Got No Heart: A Benefit for Voter Participation will support HeadCount’s ongoing efforts to engage and inform voters who will then make their voices heard at the polls. Funding will support several initiatives including a program to register voters at high schools, a get-out-the-vote tour of colleges, and a multimedia campaign called “The Future is Voting.” HeadCount is also providing direct assistance for local organizations who are registering voters of all ages in their own communities.

“We are seeing history unfold around us every day, and this concert will be a unique part of that history,” says HeadCount co-founder and Executive Director Andy Bernstein. “We are honored that Phil and these amazing artists have chosen voter participation as the cause they want to support.”

Phil Lesh & Friends w/ Special Guests