From the editors: For this installment of our Summer Tour Venue Revue, the editors of Phish.net wanted to extend an invitation to Craig Hillwig (aka @chillwig) to offer his perspective on Phish’s return to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Craig is a longtime fan and taper, who has generously shared countless recordings with the fan community over the years.

Phish returns to the historic Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco for three nights on August 2-4, 2013. Thanks to phish.net for inviting me to guest post about it.

For Phish fans who are also Deadheads, a San Francisco run during the first week of August is highly symbolic. Of course, I'm referring to the “Days Between” - the period between Jerry Garcia's August 1 birthday and the August 9 anniversary of his death in 1995. Eighteen years later, it's still a pretty big deal in the Bay Area. For some sobering context, consider that some of this June's high school graduates were born after Garcia's passing.

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Note received today from Melinda Jennis of Pathways for Exceptional Children (Montville, NJ).

"I wanted to keep you up to date on what is going on with the grant the Mockingbird Foundation gave to us. The concert the Pathways' Rock Band had on April 27th was amazing. The kids sold over 400 tickets and the concert was considered one of the best in the area. We just had Kevin Jonas from the Jonas Brothers come to visit our studio last week and he was so impressed he is coming back in a few weeks to play with our band and practice with them. I have attached our latest newsletter that tells about it all. One of the kids on the rock band was awarded the Hasbro Community Action Hero Award for the Project Win-Win program that the rock band is a part of. Thank you again for all of your help. The grant has helped a purchase a new guitar amp, keyboard, and Presonas mixer/recorder. It has helped us go from good to great!

Thanks you so much again!

Melinda Jennis, Pathways for Exceptional Children"

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