Carson, Candace

Candace D. Carson is a Deadhead. A hippie since the late 1960s, she was introduced to the Grateful Dead's music in 1972, when she heard their "Workingman's Dead" album. She attended her first show in June 1979 and her last in May 1995, just before Jerry Garcia's death. When she's not listening to the Dead, she works as an Iyengar yoga instructor out of her own studio and also spends time pursuing her photography hobby. Carson lives in Gunnison, Colorado, with her husband. "Diary of a Deadhead" is her first book.