Easy Jim brings two drummers and the Dead to the Mesa Theater Saturday

The Gunnison-born Grateful Dead band plays Grand Junction on Saturday, Nov. 7, with tickets at $20 to $25.

Two drummers, four-part harmonies and the songbook everyone in the room already knows. That's Easy Jim, and this Saturday, Nov. 7, the band plays the Mesa Theater.

Easy Jim, Music of the Grateful Dead plays the Mesa Theater in Grand Junction on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $25 through See Tickets. The show was announced Oct. 14, and the theater holds 850.

Easy Jim comes out of the Gunnison and Crested Butte mountains. The band formed in the fall of 2018 as a six-piece and built itself to match the Grateful Dead's own setup: two drummers and four-part vocal harmonies. The name comes from a Robert Hunter lyric in "Althea." The sets lean on the classic Dead songbook and leave plenty of room for long improvised jams, which is the point of a band like this.

A Western Slope band with two drummers and four-part harmonies.

Over the past few years the band has worked its way across Colorado. It has played Sherbino Theater in Ridgway, including a two-night run, and Big B's in Paonia. Durango's Animas City Theatre has hosted it, and so has Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs. In March 2026 it played the Fox Theatre in Boulder and carried that momentum into a date at Belly Up Aspen and a spring run. The Aspen Daily News went so far as to say Aspen had adopted Easy Jim as its own.

For Grand Junction, that makes Saturday a chance to see a Western Slope band that has been proving itself on bigger stages. The Mesa Theater is the right size for it: 850 people is enough to feel like a real Dead show.

The price helps too. At $20 to $25, it's an easy call for a Saturday in early November, before the holidays start filling the calendar.

Tickets are on See Tickets now. Bring your dancing shoes.

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