With over 555 shows performed since its inception in 2014, Runaway Gin is the World’s Most Notable Phish Tribute Project. They have been voted the Best Phish Tribute in the World two years in a row and 2022 Charleston Jam Band of the Year. On July 4th, 2015, after the second show of the Grateful Dead GD50 run, Runaway Gin sold out the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago catapulting them from a Southeastern regional act onto the National scene. The band has also made numerous festival appearances including Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival, Resonance Music and Arts Festival, the Woodlands Music and Arts Festival, Nextival (headliner), Hidden in the Hollow Festival and has headlined top national venues such as: the Norva, the National, Jannus Live, and the Georgia Theater.

The members of Runaway Gin have united with the goal of creating musical moments inspired by Phish. The band's song list is constantly growing and their improvisational and communication skills are constantly developing independently and together. Like Phish, Runaway Gin will never play the same show or jam the same way twice making every show a unique experience and every moment pure artistic creation.

Jennifer Reiser - Keyboards, Vocals

Throughout Jennifer's life, there was never a time when she wasn't listening to Phish. Raised in Greensboro, NC, her father introduced her to Phish when she was young, and she was instantly captivated by the complex absurdity of both the vocals and the instrumentation. When she was 11, her family inherited an old upright piano, and she proceeded to spend many years learning to play songs by Phish, Yes, and the Grateful Dead. She began taking piano lessons, and a few years later she was accepted into Weaver Academy, a magnet high-school for performing arts, where she majored in piano. After graduating, she attended the School of Music at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she received her bachelor’s degree.

On the side, Jennifer records and produces her own music, having released a solo album as well as a number of songs with her band Fifth Species. She occasionally fills in on the keys for local Phish and Grateful Dead tribute bands around her hometown.

CURTIS WINGFIELD - drums, vocals

Curtis Wingfield is a drummer and composer based in Charlotte, NC. His latest singles, "Adama,” “Jennie Linn,” and "Blues for Chantilly" feature hybrid guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter.

Curtis received his first drum kit for Christmas at age 3. At age 4, he started studying piano and continued that until age 11, competing in national classical piano competitions.  At age 11, he began studying snare drum in school band and continued through high school in concert and marching bands, the last two years of which, he served as drumline captain. He then continued his music education as a percussion performance major at East Carolina University, where he also concentrated on jazz composition.

In 1999, Curtis moved to Charlotte, NC and that’s when his career as an in-demand drummer started. Playing in several different bands at any given time period. He also began periodically touring nationally with Bellyfull, Gonzilla (whose alumni include Allan Holdsworth, Gary Husband, and Kai Eckhardt), and The Afromotive (during which he had features in both DRUM! and Modern Drummer magazines). During this time, Curtis was also a successful, in-demand, private drum teacher and session drummer.

His current projects include Runaway Gin, the world’s most prominent Phish tribute, 

Jazz Is Led, which Curtis founded and is the primary arranger, and Bears Gone Phishin, which features a mashup of Grateful Dead, Phish, and Widespread Panic.

DAVID ‘DKAT’ KATILIUS - BASS, Vocals

David ‘DKat’ Katilius is a native of Greenville, SC. Formerly a classically trained pianist and percussionist, DKat picked up the bass in 2010 and graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA in 2015 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Electric Bass Performance. While at Berklee, he got to study with some of the world’s premier musicians including Lincoln Goines, John Patitucci, Victor Bailey, David 'Fuze' Fiuczynski, and Victor Wooten. In addition to his duties in Runaway Gin, he plays with Greenville Phish tribute project Adam Knight’s Buried Alive, and also writes and tours with the fusion group The Shady Recruits. David is also a live audio engineer and is currently the house engineer for Doc’s Tavern in Greenville, as well as freelancing at various music venues and churches around the Carolinas. 

Dkat's first Phish show was the Raleigh 2018 show. He attributes his affinity for Phish to one of his dearest friends and Columbia/Charleston jam scene mainstay, the late Cory Takach. "Cory was a true Phish guru," David says. "He was the one who pushed me to keep going with [Adam Knight's] Buried Alive and dive deeper into this music, and that has blossomed into something truly noteworthy. Now, with Runaway Gin, I have even more opportunities to keep Cory's memory and passion for Phish alive."