New Year's Eve concert with the Garcia Birthday Band, a Grateful Dead tribute, at the Mission Theater.
Garcia Birthday Band are playing Mission Theater on Thursday, December 31, 2026, for a New Year's Eve show. They're a Grateful Dead tribute, so the night is built around the Dead's catalog. If you're looking for a way to ring in the new year with a full set of those songs, this is a straightforward place to do it.
The venue is the Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St in Portland. It's one of McMenamins' neighborhood spots, and it goes by 'the Mission' for short. It started as a church—the Swedish Mission Covenant congregation in the early 20th century—and its history on that site goes back to the 1890s, when the Swedish Evangelical Mission first established its church there. Since then, it's evolved into a theater-pub and event space that hosts live music, video dance nights, and special events on select nights each month.
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Inside, the Mission holds around 300 standing and 200 seated, and the night is for ages 21 and over. Doors open at 7 PM, and the show starts at 8 PM. With the music starting early, you've got plenty of time to settle in before the countdown.
