Jeff Mattson

Happening at one of the most beautiful and intimate venues in New Orleans and featuring some of the most well-known names in the extended Grateful Dead family, AXIAL TILT is an all-out party in honor of the music, life, harmony…

We're coming to the Catskills!  Catch Jeff Mattson & Friends featuring DSO bandmates Rob Barraco, Skip Vangelas, and Lisa Mackey with Tom Barraco Sunday, April 24 at Colony Woodstock!

Doors 6 / Show 8

$30 ADV / $35 DOS

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Announcing: Jeff Mattson & Friends Green Mountain Mini-Tour! 

We're thrilled to head up to Vermont for a few nights in April!  I'm bring DSO bandmates Rob Barraco, Skip Vangelas, and Lisa Mackey as well as Tom Barraco along with me…

Immense thanks to the Grateful Guitars Foundation for this custom Scarlet Fire Guitars “Woolly Mammoth” guitar lovingly built by luthier Leo Elliott in the Doug Irwin style akin to Garcia’s famous Rosebud Guitar. World-famous inlay artist Larry Robinson also worked…

Friends, I am please to announce the return of the long-running D-Jam, an annual event hosted by legendary Pittsburgh-area jamband theCause benefitting Pittsburgh's Just Harvest.  DSO bandmate Lisa Mackey and myself will be joining theCause for this special night…

Catch Me now on Part 1 of the "Playing Dead" episode of the Good Ol' Grateful Dead podcast hosted by Jesse Jarnow!

The Deadcast examines how the Grateful Dead became a genre and school of music unto themselves, tracing…

Out now!  I had the opportunity to sit down with my Dark Star Orchestra friend and bandmate Rob Koritz for the latest episode of his breakout podcast The Music Plays The Band. Our episode is available now on Spotify…

In the past year, the word "Shelter" has only come to be more powerful in all our lives. This song was originally recorded by Donna Jean and the Tricksters, but has been remixed with stronger background vocals and a more…

Thank you to everyone who has joined me online over the past several months.  Performing for you is my favorite thing and I'm grateful to have been able to continue while we could not gather in person.  Now that live…

I am honored and excited to announce the upcoming release of my good friend Mike Falzarano's A Kaleidoscope Christmas, an album on which I was invited to play on four of the tracks in great company.  A Kaleidoscope Christmas…

Tune into Jeff Mattson & Friends this Sunday, October 18 at 4pm Eastern for another round of your old and new favorites LIVE from my living room, then get your tickets while you still can for Dark Star Orchestra's Halloween…

Friends,  thank you to everyone who has been joining me from my living room every other Sunday on Facebook LIVE.  The time spent "together" albeit it online in invaluable to me and I'm happy to report I'll be returning to…