The China Cat Riders offer an authentic dose of The Grateful Dead.

They are not shy of the long and deep cuts, and they don’t do it note for note, for they know the music plays the band.

The band formed out of a reunion of Hurricane Bob, who played around the city in the early nineties. Band members—Adam Hodge, Kevin Bowers, Dan Curtis, Wes Garland and Pete Bowers—are all veterans of the Kingston music scene, and have a common love of The Dead.