Sunshine Daydream

For the song, see Sugar Magnolia.
Sunshine Daydream
A skeleton with a flower headdress holds aloft a hawk with outspread wings. In the background is a forest, with a rainbow in the sky.
Sunshine Daydream film poster
Directed byJohn Norris
Produced bySam Field
StarringGrateful Dead
Production
company
Canis Major
Distributed byRhino Entertainment
Release date
  • August 1, 2013 (2013-08-01)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Sunshine Daydream is a music documentary film, starring the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was shot at their August 27, 1972 concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon.[1][2] Unreleased for many years, the film was sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it circulated on VHS and DVD, and as digital downloads. A digitally remastered and reedited official version of the film was released on August 1, 2013, showing only one time in selected theaters as that year's edition of the Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies.[3][4][5][6] It was screened with Grateful Days, a new documentary short that includes interviews with some of the concert attendees. Sunshine Daydream was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 17, 2013.

Actor Al Strobel, well known for playing The One-Armed Man in Twin Peaks, shot footage that ended up in the film.[7][8]

Sunshine Daydream is also a live album containing the complete August 27, 1972 Grateful Dead concert. Produced as a 3-disc CD and as a 4-disc LP, it was released by Rhino Records on September 17, 2013.[9]

The name Sunshine Daydream is taken from the coda section of the Dead song "Sugar Magnolia".

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  7. ^ "Grateful Dead Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, 8/27/72, part 1". Grateful Dead. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
  8. ^ "Grateful Dead Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, 8/27/72, part 2". Grateful Dead. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
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