US EditionFans Toast Grateful Dead’s 60th with Concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUL 29 – Dead & Company and other acts perform at Golden Gate Park with an estimated 60,000 daily attendees amid citywide events and legal cannabis sales for the first time.
- Fans are converging on Golden Gate Park's Polo Field for a three-night series starting Friday, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead.
- Formed in 1965 in the Bay Area, the Grateful Dead became a counterculture icon since inception six decades ago.
- For the first time ever, Dead concertgoers can enjoy regulated cannabis sales and consumption in Grass Lands, San Francisco. Mayor Daniel Lurie highlighted the economic boost from the event.
- As San Francisco recovers from pandemic hits, city officials say the weekend's parties and celebrations will boost the local economy.
- Fans are returning to Golden Gate Park to celebrate cannabis, community and music, embracing that no two shows are the same in the park where the movement began.
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Grahame Lesh is hosting a three-night concert series, The Heart of Town, to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Lesh’s shows, taking place July 31-Aug. 2 at San Francisco’s Pier 48, coincide with Dead & Company’s three-night stand at Golden Gate Park Aug. 1-3. Lesh tells ABC Audio the weekend is about celebrating more than just the band’s music. “The Grateful Dead is so all-encompassing,” Lesh, son of the late Grateful Dead…
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Fans toast Grateful Dead’s 60th with concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
Tens of thousands of Deadheads are pouring into San Francisco for three days of Dead & Company concerts in honor of the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary.
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Grahame Lesh is hosting a three-night concert series, The Heart of Town, to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Lesh’s shows, taking place July 31-Aug. 2 at San Francisco’s Pier 48, coincide with Dead & Company’s three-night stand at Golden Gate Park Aug. 1-3. Lesh tells ABC Audio the weekend is about celebrating more than just the band’s music. “The Grateful Dead is so all-encompassing,” Lesh, son of the late Grateful Dead…
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