Over the previous couple many years, the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY turned a kind of East Coast dwelling base for the late Phil Lesh and a few of his fellow Grateful Lifeless alums. Peter Shapiro, the venue’s proprietor, was the promoter behind the Lifeless’s fiftieth anniversary Fare Thee Nicely exhibits, and Lesh carried out on the venue 106 between 2012 and his dying final 12 months. So it’s becoming that the Capitol Theatre and the Village of Port Chester have put in a tribute to Lesh.
Saturday marks 85 years since Lesh’s delivery. In honor of that, the Capitol is internet hosting a four-day celebration of Lesh that includes his son Grahame Lesh, his grandson Levi, and different performers together with Rick Mitarotonda, Eric Krasno, Oteil Burbridge, Jason Crosby, John Molo, Jennifer Hartswick, Jackie Greene, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Steve Molitz, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, and Rob Barraco. As we speak, to kick off the proceedings, the nook of Westchester Avenue and Broad Avenue, proper outdoors the theatre, has formally been renamed Phil Lesh Lane. Broad Avenue is dwelling to the Cap’s “Door 12” stage door, which Lesh entered by means of for his many performances on the venue. His tour bus was recurrently parked alongside the stretch of avenue that may now bear his title.
An announcement from Shapiro:
Phil was like a father to the Capitol, and carried out there extra occasions than another musician within the theater’s historical past. We’re thrilled that he’ll now be with us, on the identical avenue, for each present the theater has shifting ahead, without end.
And one from Grahame Lesh:
The Lesh Household is so honored that the numerous magical nights that Phil spent at The Cap might be commemorated with Phil Lesh Lane. Phil cherished The Cap and all the group that got here to his exhibits right here, and our entire household will at all times really feel the love that mirrored again to him and all of us. It’s additional particular for this commemoration to occur on his eighty fifth Birthday weekend, as all of us spent so lots of his birthdays with Deadheads who traveled from close to and much to have fun with him and our household.
The revealing passed off at present at 4:20 p.m. (haha). Watch footage under.
Phil Lesh Lane is formally right here!
Watch as Phil’s grandson, Levon, unveils the road signal honoring a particular tribute to his grandfather. An unimaginable second for the Lesh household and all Deadheads!
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— The Capitol Theatre
(@capitoltheatre) March 14, 2025
