The Road to Shakedown Street

The cancellation of Wednesday's Dead & Co concert at SPAC did little to stop the swarms of hippie fans from partying like it was 1985.

The Dead & Co’s cancellation didn’t stop the music: Upstate New York native Ryan Sullivan, who’s back in town for the summer from New Orleans, with Grace Daily busking at Shakedown Street.

When I woke up Wednesday morning, I had no idea what Shakedown Street was. But by 4:15pm, through a series of events both serendipitous and unlucky, I found myself dropped into the pop-up hippie capital of the US, concert cancellation be damned.