Jeff Mattson

DSO Fall Tour kicks off this week!

We'll celebrate a HUGE milestone on 11/11: 25 years since our first ever performance! Join us back where it all began on Friday, November 11 at The Vic Theatre in Chicago for a…

Dark Star Orchestra's Cosmic New Year's Run has been announced! Join the band for a pair of shows at the State Theatre in Portland, ME on December 28 & 29, and then ring in 2023 at The Capitol Theatre in…

Tickets for Dark Star Orchestra's 25th Anniversary Tour are on sale now! 

Thu, Nov 3​ - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN 

Fri, Nov 4 &​ Sat, Nov 5​ - Riverside Theater - Milwaukee, WI 

Thu, Nov 10 - Brown County…

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…