On this day in 1990, Garcia and David Grisman reunited onstage for the first time after years apart. Their story stretched back decades, but this performance opened the door to everything that followed. They first crossed paths in 1964, picking bluegrass in the parking lot at Sunset Park in West Grove, Pennsylvania. They moved in different circles, but the same pull toward traditional acoustic music kept bringing them back into each other’s orbit. By the early ’70s they were picking together in

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