{"id":175490,"date":"2026-02-22T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:54:07","slug":"daniel-donato-joins-deadeye-in-austin-for-late-night-dead-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175490\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Donato Joins DeadEye in Austin for Late-Night Dead Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deadeyeaustin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grateful Dead tribute project DeadEye<\/a> headlined a hometown show at Austin, TX\u2019s 29th Street Ballroom.\u00a0Nashville-area based guitarist Daniel Donato was in the Live Music Capital of the World for a performance with his Cosmic Country combo at Emo\u2019s and stopped by DeadEye\u2019s show after his concert for a surprise sit in. The guitarist, who has performed with Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and\u00a0Bill Kreutzmann, as well as a mix of Grateful Dead-related projects, emerged for classics \u201cDark Star,\u201d \u201cGreatest Story Ever Told,\u201d \u201cMississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo\u201d and \u201cSugar Magnolia.\u201d On the latter selection, Donato even shared vocals with another special guest, singer Erin Stein.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeadEye will play a family-friendly Rock and Roll Playhouse set at Austin\u2019s\u00a03TEN Austin City Limits Live this morning while <a href=\"https:\/\/danieldonato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donato will appear<\/a> at\u00a0Oklahoma City, OK\u2019s Tower Theatre with Cosmic Country this evening.\u00a0<br \/>Here\u2019s a look at Friday\u2019s setlist via DeadEye\u2019s Facebook page<\/p>\n<p>Friday, February 20, 29th Street Ballroom, Austin, Texas <\/p>\n<p>Set I: Let the Good Times Roll, Hell In A Bucket, Peggy O, Me and My Uncle &gt; Big River, Lazy River Road, New Minglewood Blues, Rubin and Cherise, Lazy Lightnin &gt; Supplication, Help On the Way &gt; Slipknot! &gt; Deal<\/p>\n<p>Set II: Promised Land, Foolish Heart, Dancin in the Streets, It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet &gt; Terrapin Station &gt; I Need A Miracle &gt; Dark Star* &gt; Greatest Story Ever Told *, Mississippi Half Step *, Sugar Magnolia %<\/p>\n<p>* with Daniel Donato on guitar<\/p>\n<p>% with Daniel Donato on guitar and Erin Stein on vox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday night, the Grateful Dead tribute project DeadEye headlined a hometown show at Austin, TX\u2019s 29th Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-175490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}