US EditionFans Toast Grateful Dead’s 60th with Concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park | News Channel 3-12
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AUG 1 – Dead & Company mark 60 years of the Grateful Dead with three concerts drawing 60,000 daily attendees and debut legal cannabis sales at Golden Gate Park events.
- Dead and Company held a three-day concert event at the Polo Field within Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead in early August 2025.
- The celebration followed the band's formation in 1965 and continued through Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, with ongoing fans and spinoffs keeping the community alive.
- Events included a street renaming for Jerry Garcia, long lines at the Polo Field, and local parties, drawing hundreds of thousands of fans from across the country.
- San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie expressed enthusiasm that the large influx of visitors attending upcoming events will bring significant economic advantages to the city and its residents, who will benefit from increased spending and the variety of activities available.
- Officials expect the concerts to bring approximately $150 million to the city and affirm San Francisco's ongoing role as a leader in the live music scene.
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Dead and Company return to San Francisco for Grateful Dead 60th anniversary
Everywhere you look in Golden Gate Park, almost everyone is wearing a tie-dye shirt. The Grateful Dead's continuing act, Dead and Company, is performing for three-straight nights in San Francisco to celebrate the band's 60th anniversary.
Dead & Co's Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows are first to feature legal cannabis sales & consumption
Courtesy Live Nation If you piled it all up, the amount of marijuana smoked at Grateful Dead and Dead & Company concerts over the years would probably reach from here to the moon. But Deadheads will be indulging legally for the upcoming anniversary shows. Three Dead & Company shows are taking place at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Aug. 1 to Aug. 3 in celebration of 60 years of the Grateful Dead’s music. And Pollstar reports that for the …
Fans toast Grateful Dead’s 60th with concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park | News Channel 3-12
By The Associated Press (AP) — Fans of the Grateful Dead are pouring into San Francisco for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people wore flowers in their hair and made love, not war. Dead & Company, featuring original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, will play Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field starting Friday with an estimated 60,000 attendees …
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Fans of the Grateful Dead are pouring into San Francisco for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people wore flowers in their hair and made love, not war. Dead & Company, featuring original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, will play Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field starting Friday with an estimated 60,000 attendees each day. The last time the ban…
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