Goose played its first show of 2026 on Saturday, shaking off the cobwebs with a headlining set at Athens, GA melanoma awareness festival Jam in the Streets. The outdoor event, presented by 501(c)(3) non-profit Jam For Cam, also featured performances by Moon Taxi, Clay Street Unit, Slater Nalley, Jacoozy, Easy Honey, Wax Monkey, Tomorrow’s Problem, and more, and reportedly welcomed more than 25,000 attendees. Among the indie-jam band’s first orders of business for the new year was paying tribute to Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, who collaborated with Goose several times over the years.
Despite the single-set format, a two-and-a-half-hour slot on the main stage in the streets of Athens afforded Goose plenty of time to stretch out and jam. Keyboardist Peter Anspach came charging out on funky clavinet for the opening 14-minute “Hot Tea”, paired with “Arcadia” to set an upbeat tone for the show ahead.
Elsewhere, Goose allowed a patient “Arcadia” to rise and fall through several jam peaks. “Hot Love & The Lazy Poet” and a fast “Echo of a Rose” kept up the pace, bassist Trevor Weekz providing a bedrock throughout as the band’s four-man format allows greater emphasis on each person’s role. Of note, the band introduced new arrangements for originals “Madalena” and “Your Direction”, giving the former a melodic intro and slowing down the latter.
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After “Give It Time” closed the main set, Goose returned to the stage with a good bit of time still on the board. As the crowd kept chanting and showed no signs of stopping, Goose dropped into the wobbly opening of Grateful Dead staple, “One More Saturday Night”. For the past few decades, there was a decent probability that, if you picked one of the year’s 52 Saturdays at random, Bob Weir may have been playing “One More Saturday Night” that evening. Just as Goose has done with the jam band tradition Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead started, so too has Goose taken up the tradition of playin’ “One More Saturday” on a Saturday.
Check out audio of Goose at Jam in the Streets, along with photos by Robert Francis. nugs subscribers can watch the full show on demand and tune in live to the band’s entire spring tour. Start streaming here. [Editor’s note: Live For Live Music is a nugs affiliate. Ordering your subscription via the links on this page helps to support our work covering the world of live music. Thank you for reading!]
Goose’s tour picks back up in April with shows in North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. Find tickets and tour dates here. [Editor’s note: Live For Live Music may earn a commission on ticket purchases completed via the links on this page.]
Founded in 2018 in honor of Cameron Fearon, an Atlanta-native and University of Georgia student who passed away from melanoma at 19 years old, Jam For Cam’s Jam In The Streets has become one of the fastest-growing college town festivals in the country, bringing together community, music, and philanthropy to fight one of the fastest-growing cancers among young adults. For more information on Jam For Cam and details on how to get involved, head here.
Goose — Jam In The Streets — Athens, GA — 3/28/26 — Full Audio
Setlist [via ElGoose.net]: Goose | Jam In The Streets | Athens, GA | 3/28/26
Set: Hot Tea > Flodown, Arcadia, Hot Love & The Lazy Poet, Madalena [1] > Echo of a Rose [2], Your Direction [3], Thatch, Hungersite > Don’t Leave Me This Way (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes), Give It Time
Encore: One More Saturday Night (Grateful Dead) [4], The Empress Of Organos -> Shama Lama Ding Dong (Otis Day & The Knights) -> The Empress Of Organos
Soundcheck: Atlas, My Mind Has Been Consumed By Media, Eminence Front, California Magic
[1] New melodic intro
[2] Fast version
[3] New slow version
[4] LTP 12/31/21 (306 shows)
