New Orleans’ beloved Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been jumping from collaboration to collaboration over the past few years, teaming up with everyone from Del McCoury and Arcade Fire to Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello and the String Cheese Incident. Their next big collaboration will find them in the Grateful Dead orbit when they take the stage with Phil Lesh & Friends at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY this Friday, May 26.

Led by Grateful Dead co-founder Phil Lesh, the project has found the bassist performing his band’s iconic canon with a rotating cast of musicians in the years since Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995. This Friday’s incarnation of the group will feature Lesh, Karl Denson, Jackie Greene, Robert Randolph, Ross James, Tony Leone, Alex Koford and, of course, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. It will be their first-ever performance with Lesh  (the band was also joined by Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir on a couple of occasions back in 2014).

PHJB have been hitting the road hard lately in support of their new release, So It Is!, a Cuban-influenced effort that marks the band’s second album of completely original material. The group played an excellent set at Jazz Fest earlier this month, and their upcoming summer tour schedule includes stops at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Electric Forest and Newport Folk, as well as a run in Japan. 

Tickets for PHJB’s collaboration with Phil Lesh & Friends are still on sale.