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Between The Dark and Light – The Grateful Dead Photography of JAY BLAKESBERG

  • The Birchmere Music Hall 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue Alexandria, VA, 22305 United States (map)
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Please join renowned San Francisco photographer Jay Blakesberg presenting his 90 minute Grateful Dead slideshow/storytelling event about his adventure photographing the Grateful Dead experience over the last 40 years. The story kicks off with Jay’s colorful teenage years growing up in suburban New Jersey in the late 1970s, where he and his friends lived for the thrill of sex, drugs and rock and roll. He describes how his love for photography began in 1978 after his father gave him an old Pentax camera to shoot the Grateful Dead performing at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Back then, Jay would develop the photos in his mothers basement so he could simply take this self-created memorabilia and plaster it on his bedroom walls.