Concert pick: Umphrey’s McGee at Penn’s Peak

Concert pick: Umphrey’s McGee at Penn’s Peak

Over the course of their 25-year career, Umphrey’s McGee’s praises have been sung by countless critics and musicians. But few have been as dear to the Indiana improv-rock group’s heart as those of Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead cofounder who took the band under his wing early on. “I’m not so much paternalistic,” Lesh once told an interviewer, “as I am jealous that I can’t play with these guys all the time.” “Phil was a creative genius, somebody we…