Splintered Sunlight’s
Grateful Halloween
at the Stone Pony · October 31
The long-running Delaware Valley Grateful Dead tribute. Halloween night. The Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Over 300 songs in rotation. A costume contest with cash prizes. Sandy Mack Band opening. Doors at 7.
Stone Pony · Asbury Park, NJ · Doors at 7 PM · Two Sets · Costume Contest at Set Break
The Stone Pony is a standing-room-only rock club on the Asbury Park waterfront that has served as one of the most storied live music venues on the East Coast since the 1970s. It is Splintered Sunlight’s primary New Jersey home venue — a room that knows this band and whose audience knows both the room and the music. Halloween night at the Stone Pony is not a coincidence. It is the right show in the right place.
Sandy Mack Band Opens · Splintered Sunlight Plays Two Sets · Costume Contest at Set Break
Doors open. Get there early — standing room only and this is Halloween night at the Stone Pony.
Local favorite Sandy Mack Band, featuring Jon and Mazz from Fungshui, opens the evening.
Led by founding member Butchy Sochorow, drawing from over 300 Grateful Dead songs in rotation. Two full sets. Music runs through 11:30 PM.
A dedicated costume contest during the set break with cash prizes for the best outfits. This is Halloween. Come dressed.
Over 300 Songs in Rotation. Led by Founding Member Butchy Sochorow. The Gold Standard in the Delaware Valley.
Splintered Sunlight is the long-running Grateful Dead tribute act based in the Delaware Valley, and they have been the gold standard in the Philadelphia and South Jersey region for years. Led by founding member Butchy Sochorow, the band maintains a live rotation of over 300 Grateful Dead songs — a catalog depth that most tribute acts cannot approach and that means no two shows share a setlist in any meaningful way. The approach is faithful to the improvisational spirit of the Dead rather than to specific recordings, which gives each performance the same quality of open-ended surprise that made the original band’s live shows worth following from night to night.
The Stone Pony is Splintered Sunlight’s primary New Jersey home venue, and the decision to host a dedicated Grateful Halloween event there on October 31 reflects the relationship the band has built with that room and its audience. This is not a one-off booking. It is a band playing the right venue for the occasion, on the night that the Grateful Dead’s own relationship with Halloween — documented across the five Don’s Pick Halloween selections airing on The Grateful Dead Live this month — makes the whole thing feel specifically and appropriately timed.
Over 300 songs in rotation and a founding member leading the band means no two Splintered Sunlight shows are the same — the same quality of open-ended surprise that made the original Dead worth following every night.
The Grateful Dead LiveA dedicated costume contest runs during the set break with cash prizes for the best outfits. The Grateful Dead’s Halloween shows have always had a specific energy — the band dressed the venues, played songs they hadn’t touched in years, and treated the night as permission to do something different. Splintered Sunlight is bringing that same ethos to Asbury Park. Come in costume. It is that kind of night.
The Wednesday Night Home for Live Music by Grateful Dead Cover Bands
Every Wednesday night on The Grateful Dead Live, the Music Plays The Band Radio Show celebrates the world of Grateful Dead cover bands and the important role they play in keeping the legacy alive. Splintered Sunlight — with over 300 songs in rotation, a founding member at the helm, and a Halloween night at the Stone Pony on the calendar — is exactly the kind of band this show exists to celebrate.
