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SUMMARY:BERTHA: Grateful Drag
DESCRIPTION:BERTHA: Grateful Drag has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 fro
 m every ticket sold goes to the Equality Community Center and their work
  serving as a community center for Maine’s LGBTQ+ community. BERTHA: Gra
 teful Drag are the world’s first Grateful Dead tribute band of its kind.
  Born in Tennessee in 2023 as a joyful\, defiant response to anti-drag l
 egislation\, queens united on stage to celebrate community and raise fun
 ds in support. What was meant to be a one-night stand quickly turned int
 o a full-blown love affair: the debut show sold out\, caught the attenti
 on of Rolling Stone and the San Francisco Chronicle\, and launched an al
 l-star roots collective with some serious legs and lashes. The band was 
 hatched during a phone call from Mommy to Daddy Bertha (aka Caitlin Doyl
 e and GRAMMY-winning songwriter Melody Walker)\, with an initial vision 
 of an all-female\, Nashville-based Dead project. That plan gleefully exp
 anded as queer and allied bluegrass and Americana heavyweights Thomas Br
 yan Eaton (lead guitar)\, Jacob Groopman (bass)\, Mike Wheeler (rhythm g
 uitar)\, Alex Jordan (keys)\, and Justin Vorp (drums) hopped aboard the 
 rainbow bandwagon. Musically\, BERTHA stays reverent to the tones\, text
 ures\, and deep-groove spirit of the Grateful Dead catalog they hold sac
 red\, while giving it a bold new glow-up. Doyle\, Walker\, and Wheeler l
 ead collectively as a vocal trio\, shifting keys as needed to unleash po
 werhouse female vocals. Energy-wise\, BERTHA leans hard into a high-octa
 ne\, late 70’s early 80’s Dead sound\, complete with the classic two-set
 \, three-hour format\, and fresh\, never-repeated setlists every night. 
 Community is baked into the band’s DNA. Every BERTHA show includes a fun
 draising component for a local LGBTQ+ organization and features drag or 
 burlesque performers from the host city\, turning each night into both a
  celebration and a cause. Equal parts jam-band devotion and queer joy ex
 plosion\, BERTHA: Grateful Drag has first-time listeners and lifelong De
 adheads alike waving that flag wide and bi. From an uproarious early set
  at Newport Folk Festival to their debut in the promised land of San Fra
 ncisco\, where Wavy Gravy himself sat stage-right in a pink bowler hat\,
  bestowing full Prankster approval. As longtime Grateful Dead publicist 
 Dennis McNally put it during BERTHA’s two-night run at San Francisco’s G
 reat American Music Hall: “Jerry would have loved this.\n\nTickets: http
 s://www.ticketmaster.com/bertha-grateful-drag-portland-maine-10-17-2026/
 event/010064A6F3659A29\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/c1c9a4a8-c3d
 3-41ba-b580-796c80becc1b
LOCATION:State Theatre\, 609 Congress St\, Portland\, ME 04101
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/c1c9a4a8-c3d3-41ba-b580-796c80becc1
 b
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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