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There was a moment at the end of Dead & Company’s Sunday night performance at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when you could truly feel gratitude float through the chilly night air. Not from the 60,000 in attendance, but the two men standing with hand to heart on the stage.

Bob Weir and Mickey Hart have taken it upon themselves to continue the legacy started six decades earlier in the very same spot. The Grateful Dead, which they co-founded along with the late Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, had gone on to tour stadiums and have hit records, but they very much remained a local band — as synonymous with the city as the fog.

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And for that, San Francisco rallied to mark the 60th anniversary in a big way. Flags bearing the Dead’s iconography flew over trolly tracks throughout downtown; “Jerry Day” was declared on...

Celebrate the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary on the Grateful Dead Channel (Ch. 23) with live broadcasts and replays of Dead & Company’s three performances in Golden Gate Park, as well as rebroadcasts of Grahame Lesh & Friends’ three “The Heart of Town” concerts at Pier 48 in San Francisco. See the full broadcast schedule below.

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Listen to every performance at Golden Gate Park on the Grateful Dead Channel live on car radios and the SiriusXM app and web player starting at 9pm Et on August 1, 2, and 3, plus rebroadcasts of all three shows the next day at 7am and noon Et.

The three-day concert series will commemorate 60 years of the Grateful Dead with Dead & Company – featuring Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane – headlining all three nights.

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This year marks 60 years since the Grateful Dead’s formation, and in celebration of the occasion, the band’s spin-off group, Dead & Company, will perform three himetown shows at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this August.

The concerts will go down on August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, with Grateful Dead co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart joining Dead & Company’s John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane for the three-night run. Additionally, a special opening act will join Dead & Company each night: Billy Strings on Friday, August 1st; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson on Saturday, August 2nd; and Trey Anastasio Band on Sunday, August 3rd.

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A general ticket on-sale for three-day tickets begins Friday, May 30 at 10 Am Pt via Ticketmaster, with 3-day tickets starting at $635 ($556 + $79 fees). Single-day tickets will be available soon, starting at $245 ($209 + $36 fees).

Beyond the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary,...

A hollow, lifeless conference hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center is just about the last place you would expect to find a Grateful Dead tribute concert on a Friday night. But it was there that MusiCares put on a show for the ages, honoring the band at its Persons of the Year gala with founding members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart in attendance (drummer Bill Kreutzmann could not make the trip and delivered a message by video) and a slew of acolytes who understood the assignment.

Typically, the MusiCares dinner is a polite affair, with guests seated respectfully for most of the performances, save the all-star finale, a staple of the event. And that’s not to say that previous Person of the Year recipients — which include Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand — didn’t have their own rabid fanbases in attendance. But the Deadheads just do things differently.

MusiCares’ 2025 Persons of the Year benefit gala, in honor of the Grateful Dead, will feature an A-list group of performers. Noah Kahan, John Mayer, Vampire Weekend, and Maren Morris are all on the lineup, along with Dead & Company, Rolling Stone has learned. The event is slated for Jan. 31.

It will also feature Zac Brown, Sierra Ferrell, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Dave Matthews, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Billy Strings, the War on Drugs, the War and Treaty, Wynonna Judd, and Dwight Yoakam, Rs can confirm,...

The MusiCares Persons of the Year benefit gala, one of several official pre-Grammy Awards functions scheduled to take place in Los Angeles ahead of the Feb. 2 show, will go on with its tribute to the Grateful Dead on Jan. 31 and some big names are attached, sources reveal.

The Hollywood Reporter has been tipped to the slated performers on the lineup. They include: Dead & Company, John Mayer, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Norah Jones, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan, Vampire Weekend, Sierra Ferrell and Lukas Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, the War and Treaty, Sammy Hagar, Zac Brown and the War on Drugs. Previous Grateful Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby is also expected and friend of the band, and Bravo TV host, Andy Cohen — himself a longtime Deadhead who has hosted Weir on Watch What Happens — will Mc the evening.

An official announcement, released on Jan. 21, also includes Dave Matthews,...

The night has arrived for the airing of the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors special and there are so many incredible performers set to take the stage!

Queen Latifah, who was honored at last year’s show, is hosting the event for the first time.

The recipients to be honored at the annual national celebration of the arts are acclaimed director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola; the legendary American rock band the Grateful Dead; blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt; jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; and The Apollo, which will receive a special Honors as an iconic American institution.

The event was taped on December 8 at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington D.C. and President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were both in attendance with their spouses.

CBS is airing the special on Sunday night (December 22) from 8:30pm Et to 11:00pm Et. You...

Dead & Company are headed back to Sphere in Las Vegas next year to celebrate the Grateful Dead spinoff band’s 10-year anniversary. The 18-show run kicks off March 20 and wraps up May 17. Ticket presales begin Dec. 10. Prices start at $145, and they scale up significantly from there.

A press release notes these will be Dead & Company’s “only Sphere shows in 2025,” hinting at the possibility of more concerts elsewhere. The group wrapped up a farewell tour on July 16, 2023, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, but indicated they were open to residencies...

Dead & Company will reconvene in 2025 for a new residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas that coincides with the group’s 10th anniversary.

“Dead Forever 2025” consists of 18 shows kicking off in March 2025 and running through May. According to a press release, these dates will mark the band’s “only Sphere shows in 2025.”

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An artist ticket pre-sale is set for Tuesday, December 10th at 10:00 a.m. Pt (registration is ongoing), with a Live Nation pre-sale following on Thursday, December December 12th at 10:00 a.m. Pt (use code Joy) via Ticketmaster. A public ticket on-sale is set for Friday, December 13th. Travel and VIP packages will also be available starting Thursday, December 5th.

“Dead Forever 2025” marks Dead & Company’s second residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere following their 30-show run in 2024.

Dead & Company’s current lineup consists of former Grateful Dead members Bobby Weir and Mickey Hart along with John Mayer,...

No two Grateful Dead concerts are ever alike, but the point where they fully diverge from reality as we know it is often the same. Five songs into the second set, the band sets their instruments down and all non-rhythm section members — in its current iteration as Dead & Company, that includes longtime frontman and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, lead guitarist and vocalist John Mayer, and keyboard wizard Jeff Chimenti — exit the stage. Electronic music loops begin to play as the band’s two drummers and bassist, collectively known as the Rhythm Devils, engage in an improvisational ritual featuring hundreds of different drums from around the world. The extensive drum interlude sees them devising a new beat from scratch, mirroring how our tribal ancestors created music in the first place.

Soon after, two more people exit the stage. The section of the show referred to as “Drums” on every setlist is over,...

The iconic Grateful Dead spin-off band, Dead & Company, has launched its highly anticipated Dead Forever residency at the immersive Sphere venue in Las Vegas.

The three-night opening weekend, held from May 16 to 18, saw Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane take the stage to deliver performances of classic Grateful Dead songs, such as fan favorites “Fire on the Mountain,” “Truckin'” and “Franklin’s Tower.” The band’s signature mind-bending visuals were showcased on the venue’s 160,000-square-foot wraparound screen, which created an immersive psychedelic landscape.

The event saw the presence of several notable celebrities, such as Mayer’s best friend, Andy Cohen, as well as Diplo, Miles Teller, Chantel Jefferies and Cruz Beckham.

The “most integral” piece of the four-hour show was the iconic Grateful Dead skeleton “rising from the grave, doing a little jig and grinningly mounting a motorcycle to go journeying through a psychedelic landscape,...

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Dead and Company have extended their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere with a bunch more shows scheduled to take place in August.

The Grateful Dead offshoot group added six new dates to their “Dead Forever” residency: Aug. 1, 2, and 3, and Aug. 8, 9, and 10. Tickets for the new dates will go on sale Friday, May 31, at 10 a.m. Pt. Fans can register now for an advance presale, with those tickets...

The long, strange trip just got a lot trippier.

Dead & Company opened their much-anticipated Sphere residency in Las Vegas on Thursday night, making good on the potential of the world’s most high-tech concert venue and delivering what has to be the most dazzling visual show in Grateful Dead history.

The group took the stage just past 7:30 p.m., opening with modest visuals — by Sphere standards, at least — for “Feel Like a Stranger,” as large live shots of Bob Weir and John Mayer were projected above the stage. It...

Dead & Company’s “final tour” wasn’t the end of the road for the Grateful Dead offshoot, as the John Mayer-featuring band has confirmed they’ll reconvene this spring for a lengthy residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere.

The group — featuring Dead legends Bob Weir and Mickey Hart alongside Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, and drummer Jay Lane — previously announced their final tour in 2023, culminating with a pair of hometown gigs in San Francisco.

However, toward the end of 2023, Dead and Company were rumored to be ending their...

Dead & Company have announced the concert dates of their final tour. The U.S. shows will take place this summer.

The band played their first live shows in 2015. The lineup for their final tour includes former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart (drums) and Bob Weir (guitar and vocals) as well as John Mayer (guitar and vocals), Allman Brothers‘ Oteil Burbidge and Fare Thee Well’s Jeff Chimenti (keyboard).

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Former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann is not participating in the tour. After “many long discussions,” the band said, “Bill wants you to know that he is in good spirits, good health and he is not retiring.”

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The below setlist comes from the band’s June 3, 2023 performance in Bristow, Virginia.

Here Comes Sunshine

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo

Mr. Charlie

He’s Gone

Brown-Eyed Women

Dear Prudence (The Beatles cover)

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Dead & Company have announced their final tour for summer 2023. The tour will include the original members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer and Bob Weir, with Allman Brothers’ Oteil Burbidge and Fare Thee Well’s Jeff Chimenti.

They will perform two sets from the Grateful Dead‘s catalog.

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Here are the tour dates:

May 19 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum

May 20 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum

May 23 – Phoenix, Az – Ak-Chin Pavilion

May 26 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion

May 28 – Atlanta, Ga – Lakewood Amphitheatre

May 30 – Charlotte, Nc – Pnc Music Pavilion

June 01 – Raleigh, Nc – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek

June 03 – Bristow, Va – Jiffy Lube Live

June 05 – Burgettstown, Pa – The Pavilion at Star Lake

June 07 – St. Louis, Mo – Hollywood Casino Amphitheater

June 09 – Chicago, Il – Wrigley Field

June 10 – Chicago, Il – Wrigley Field

June 13 – Cincinnati, Oh – Riverbend Music Center

June 15 – Philadelphia, Pa – Citizen’s Bank Park

June 17 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga...

Dead and Company are officially gearing up for its final tour.

John Mayer posted a tour poster on his Instagram page that read “The Final Tour: Dead & Co. Summer 2023” and noted the group would have details on tour dates soon.

“As we put the finishing touches on booking venues, and understanding that word travels fast, we wanted to be the first to let you know that Dead & Company will be hitting the road next summer for what will be our final tour,” Mayer wrote. “Stay tuned for a full list...

Philco — the one-off supergroup led by the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Nils Cline, Margo Price, and more — made their debut Friday night at Chicago’s Sacred Rose Festival.

The concert, which coincided with Tweedy’s 54th birthday, saw the Wilco frontman take lead vocals on Dead classics like “Dire Wolf,” “U.S. Blues,” “Franklin’s Tower,” and “Ripple.”

According to Jambase, the Philco lineup was rounded out by Dead and Company keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, guitarists Stu Allen and Grahame Lesh, vocalist Elliott Peck,...

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Dead & Company is kicking off a U.S. tour this summer, and, luckily, any Deadheads who can’t make it in person can still watch the concerts live online through nugs.net. The live music streaming service has partnered with Dead & Company to bring fans live streams of every 2022 Summer Tour performance.

Read on for details on how to watch the Dead & Company tour live stream online with nugs.

Update: Sources close to Dead and Company initially claimed that 2022 will be the last year the band tours together. However, after guitarist Bob Weir tweeted his surprise about Dead and Company suspending touring, the same sources changed their tune and say discussions continue about the fate of the band. The band itself said in a statement: “Dead & Company has made no official decision as to this being their final tour.”

“Whew,” drummer Bill Kreutzmann tweeted to Weir. “I thought you knew something that I didn’t! “#themusicneverstops #wewillsurvive.”

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Dead & Company will return to the road this summer for a month-long tour of amphitheaters and stadiums nationwide.

The jam supergroup — featuring John Mayer, the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann alongside Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti — will kick off their 2022 summer tour in the same city that their 2021 fall tour concluded: Los Angeles, with Dead & Co. performing June 11th at Dodger Stadium.

The 20-date trek also includes two nights at Mountain View, California’s Shoreline Amphitheatre, Boulder, Colorado’s Folsom Field and Chicago’s Wrigley Field,...

The Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Company has canceled scheduled resort shows in Cancun, Mexico this weekend. Frontman John Mayer tested positive for Covid-19 shortly before departing.

Initially, the band planned to continue on without Mayer, but decided today to cancel the “Playing in the Sand” shows. Ticketholders will be refunded, with details expected to be emailed to holders.

Dead & Company includes former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, with Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti augmenting them. The group has been around since 2015.

Notice of the canceled show was posted to the band’s Instagram.

“With much sadness and after great consideration of every possible scenario, the Playing in the Sand shows in Riviera Cancun on January 7-10 and January 13-16 have now been canceled by Cid Presents due to the spiking Covid-19 cases. Dead & Company and Cid Presents tried everything possible to bring normalcy and...

John Mayer has tested positive for Covid-19 and will no longer appear during Dead and Company’s Playing in the Sand concerts in Mexico, which take place at Moon Palace resort in Cancún Jan. 7 to Jan. 10 and Jan. 13 through Jan. 16.

“Today, just prior to leaving for Mexico, per his physician, @JohnMayer tested positive for Covid-19 and will be unable to perform at the upcoming ‘Playing in the Sand’ event in Riviera Cancun January 7-10,” Dead and Company posted on Instagram. The weekend will now feature Dos Hermanos con Amigos.” The post lists Mickey Hart,...

One month ago, it appeared that the concert season — rearranged, stifled or outright canceled for more than a year — may have begun to return to what music fans have hoped for and expected: sweaty, unmasked mosh pits for some, cozy seats with obscenely large cupholders for others. Tours began to rebook. Fans planned road trips. And the worst of the pandemic to many seemed more retrospective fever dream than continuing nightmare.

But with recent outbreaks spreading across festivals and concerts, giant promoters like Live Nation and Aeg have been forced to rethink protocols,...

Saxophonist Dave McMurray has enlisted Bob Weir and Bettye Lavette for a rendition of the Grateful Dead’s “Loser,” the first single from McMurray’s upcoming Dead tribute album Grateful Deadication.

McMurray’s version of the Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter-penned track, sung by Lavette with Weir on guitar, also features assistance from Wolf Bros., the Weir-led group featuring Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane, Greg Leisz, and Don Was. McMurray and Was were bandmates in Was (Not Was), with Was — in his role as president of Blue Note — set to release...

Dead & Company have announced they’re hitting the road on a 2021 tour, kicking off August 16th in Raleigh, North Carolina, and running through Halloween, with a three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl on October 29th, 30th, and 31st.

The supergroup consisting of John Mayer, Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti will play 31 dates overall, including stops in New York, Chicago, Denver, Boston, and more cities throughout the U.S.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, May 21st at 12:00 p.

Dead & Company will return to the Riviera Cancun, Mexico, in January 2022 for their fourth Playing in the Sand concert vacation, a three-day residency where the all-star jam band performs from a stage just feet from the Caribbean Sea.

After holding the first Playing in the Sand in 2018, the supergroup of John Mayer, Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti returned to the Moon Palace Cancún in 2019 and 2020, with the latter marking Dead and Company’s final shows prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bob Weir and Wolf Bros will perform a special livestream show for St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt.

The show will broadcast live from Weir’s Tri Studio in the Bay Area via the livestream platform Fans. Tickets for the show are on sale for $19.99, although the price will go up to $24.99 the day of the show. Three different merch bundles are also available, one with a T-shirt and commemorative ticket, another with a poster and commemorative ticket, and a third with the T-shirt,...

In the Eighties and Nineties, the Grateful Dead played a series of Bay Area concerts celebrating the Chinese New Year. Now, Bob Weir and his group Wolf Bros will revive that tradition: On February 12th, Weir and Wolf Bros — Don Was on bass and Jay Lane on drums — will broadcast a full show from Weir’s Tri Studios in celebration of the holiday.

The performance will air at 9 p.m. Est on Fans, and will also feature Jeff Chimenti on keyboards and Greg Leisz on pedal steel.

The performance follows...

Dating back at least to 1977, when Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, and Linda Ronstadt performed during Jimmy Carter’s first day on the job — and all the way up to Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez at Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony — it hasn’t been unusual for rock and pop stars to play presidential inaugurations. Still, there was nothing quite like the sight, 12 years ago tonight, of the Grateful Dead jamming for Barack Obama.

The Dead (then using the shortened name for themselves) hadn’t been randomly invited to perform at...

Dave Matthews, Diplo and a one-off supergroup led by Bob Weir highlight the Georgia Comes Alive concert, a virtual music festival to promote voter participation in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections.

Portugal. the Man, Big Freedia, Ben Folds, Blind Boys of Alabama, Warren Haynes, and Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood will also among the 40-plus artists that will partake in the December 26th gig, which supports local grassroots organizations like Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and CivicGeorgia ahead of the January 5th, 2021 runoff election.

“The stakes are incredibly high in the Georgia runoffs,...

Founding Grateful Dead guitarist-vocalist Bob Weir will bid farewell to 2020 with his group Wolf Bros during a New Year’s Eve livestream.

The gig, which he’ll play at his Bay Area Tri Studios, will be broadcast on the Fans platform at 10 p.m. Est on December 31st and will be followed by a 10 p.m. Pst broadcast. Tickets are available on the streaming service’s website.

“We’re back and we’re here to light y’all up,” Weir said in a statement.

Weir formed his Wolf Bros trio in 2018 with Don Was,...

Dead and Company is on their Fall Run Run 2019 tour! The band was originally formed after singer-songwriter, John Mayer discovered the music of Grateful Dead. Members of the Dead and Company are Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums), along with John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbridge (bass/drums), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards) Get Dead & Co. Tickets Here! The […]

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To say the Grateful Dead had a terrible Nineties would be an understatement. Keyboardist Brent Mydland died of an overdose in 1990, followed by Jerry Garcia’s fatal heart attack five years later after years of abusing his own body. The years in-between challenged the band like few eras had before. But they still rallied and made the best of a shaky situation, and one of those periods was the band’s summer 1991 tour.

By then, the Dead had incorporated not one but two replacements for Mydland: former Tubes keyboardist Vince Welnick and,...

Ahead of the launch of Dead & Company’s 2019 summer tour next week, the group have unveiled a new live video for “Sugar Magnolia,” recorded at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado last summer and premiering exclusively on Rolling Stone.

The clip finds the supergroup — which features Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann alongside John Mayer, Otel Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti — in fine form as they breeze through the Weir-penned classic. The rendition peaks with a delirious Mayer solo that leads into the song’s iconic end as...

Dead & Company announced a U.S. summer tour. The band – comprised of Grateful Dead alumni Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, along with John Mayer, former Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti – will launch the 2019 trek with back-to-back dates (Friday, May 31st and Saturday, June 1st) in Mountain View, California.

The tour will include two-night stands at iconic venues like Los Angeles, California’s Hollywood Bowl; George, Washington’s the Gorge Amphitheatre; and Chicago, Illinois’ Wrigley Field, where the band broke the all-time...

Cid Entertainment is pleased to announce it has teamed up with the newly formed supergroup, The Big Swell, to present, “Rising Up To Paradise: New Year’s Eve on Kauai”.

Proceeds from “Rising Up to Paradise” will benefit The Hanalei Initiative and Earthjustice, two non-profits committed to bettering the local community and ensuring the welfare of our planet.

On a remote Oceanic island more than 2,520 miles from the mainland and light years away from your worries and cares, on a ranch with palm trees and ocean views, in a land where wild roosters rule the streets and sleeping giants watch over the land, and on the last night of the year, an all-star group of musicians, led by the Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, will put a final exclamation mark on 2018 and deep dive head-first into the coming year, while celebrating a magical “here” and a transcendent “now.

Dead & Company will reconvene this winter for their second annual Playing in the Sand concert vacation, which invades Riviera Maya, Mexico in January.

The supergroup – featuring John Mayer, Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti – will perform three concerts between January 17th to the 20th, with the stage just feet away from the Caribbean Sea.

Like last year’s maiden fest, Playing in the Sand in an all-inclusive festival with premium resort accommodations, 24-hour concierge service and “on-site activities including yoga, tequila tasting,...

“This is the third year and it’s kind of becoming a thing,” said manager and environmentalist Keith Addis, surveying the annual backyard benefit concert for Oceana, the seawater conservation organization, held at his home in the Los Feliz hills. “Sting was the first. [Don] Henley was the second. They’re all guys who have supported Oceana in the past so they’re pre-enrolled in the cause.”

This year’s talent? Dead & Company, who performed a seven-song set — perhaps the smallest (only 260 guests) and shortest in the band’s legendary history — on Sunday night (July 8) that included such favorites as “Dark Star,” “Shakedown Street” and “Franklin’s Tower.” Among the revelers in the crowd were Shiri Appleby, Kelly Lynch, Eli Roth and Rodger Berman, husband of fashion designer Rachel Zoe.

“Their manager, Bernie Cahill, is a really good friend of mine,” Addis said. “Normally, it takes me a couple of months to lock down the talent.

John Mayer is on the mend.

The musician is “in good spirits” after being hospitalized Tuesday morning for an emergency appendectomy, his rep tells People.

Mayer, 40, tweeted a thank you note shortly after, writing, “Thank you everyone for the well wishes. Had surgery yesterday and woke up to see some amazingly kind and loving tweets. I’m so sorry that we couldn’t finish out the last few dates of the tour. This band and these shows mean the world to me. Love you all dearly.” On a less serious note, he shared a photo from the hospital on Instagram,...

John Mayer is recovering from the emergency appendectomy he underwent on Tuesday after he was rushed to the hospital.

"Still got it," he wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, sharing a pic of himself in a hospital gown.

A rep for the 40-year-old singer tells Et that he is in good spirits, but due to the recovery process, Dead & Company has been forced to postpone three more shows.

Mayer was scheduled to perform with the band, which consists of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, along with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, multiple times this month. They postponed Tuesday's show in New Orleans for a later date. Additionally, the concerts scheduled for Dec. 7 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, and Dec. 8 at the Bb&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, are postponed.

The rep tells Et that all tickets for these shows will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Information on the rescheduled...

John Mayer was rushed to the hospital for emergency appendectomy on Tuesday, Et can confirm.

Dead & Company, which consists of Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, also announced the news via Twitter. Mayer was scheduled to perform with them on Tuesday in New Orleans, along with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti. The show is now being postponed for a later date.

"All tickets for the December 5 show will be honored for the rescheduled date," another post on Dead & Company's Twitter page reads. "Information on the rescheduled date will be announced as soon as possible. Should ticketholders choose to seek a refund, they will be available at point of purchase."

Mayer recently performed with Dead & Company over the weekend in Austin, Texas. Following the postponed New Orleans show, they are also scheduled to play at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 7, and the Bb&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, on Dec. 8.

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The United Nations Development Programme (Undp) last month appointed legendary musician and founding member of the Grateful Dead and Dead & Company Bob Weir as its newest Goodwill Ambassador.

The ceremony took place during the eighth annual Social Good Summit at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

In this new role, Weir will be teaming up with Undp to raise awareness and mobilize support for the Un agency’s work to end poverty while fighting climate change.

Weir will help Undp shine a spotlight on the important role climate action plays in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which were agreed upon by world leaders to protect the planet and achieve a brighter future for all. Weir will help Undp advocate for climate initiatives and projects that promote renewable energy, preserve coastlines, combat deforestation and ensure a healthy planet for generations to come.

“I am most honored to join the...

John Mayer may not be the first person you think of when it comes to street style stars, but that might change after his most recent wardrobe upgrades. The 39-year-old singer has recently added two seriously covetable streetwear items to his closet: a pair of Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 4 military boots, and a Supreme T-shirt — but not just any Yeezy boots and Supreme T-shirt.

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What sets Mayer apart from the rest of the cool kids is that his items feature a personalized touch. The musician stepped out...

It was as simple as this, according to Bob Weir: “We all liked the look in each other’s eyes. What eventually rattled out was this band.”

The Grateful Dead singer-guitarist was speaking on the eve of his second road trip — 24 dates in U.S. amphitheaters and stadiums, starting June 10th in Charlotte, North Carolina — with the latest iteration of his life’s work in and beyond that 20th-century touring institution: Dead & Company, founded last year with Dead drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart; former Allman Brothers Band bassist...

Dead & Company brought deep funk and soul to Thursday's Tonight Show, performing two Grateful Dead classics – "Shakedown Street" and "Brown-Eyed Women" – in their first television spot.

The supergroup – which features John Mayer and Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart – delivered a blistering "Shakedown" on-air, with Weir and Mayer trading off vocals and electric guitar lines. Their grooving web-exclusive version of "Brown-Eyed Women" allowed the sextet to stretch out in a solo-filled instrumental section, including a piano break from keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.

Dead & Company will co-headline Bonnaroo 2016 alongside...

On January 5th, just after his band Phish ended a four-night run of shows in Miami, singer-guitarist Trey Anastasio received an e-mail from Phil Lesh, the former bassist of the Grateful Dead. Lesh asked Anastasio to join him and the other surviving members of his band — guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart — onstage for reunion concerts this summer marking the Dead’s 50th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the passing of founding guitarist Jerry Garcia. Anastasio recalls his immediate reaction: “It was a thrill and an honor.

Former Grateful Dead member Bob Weir returned to the stage – and the Internet – last night, taping a new episode of his weekly web series "Weir Here" in front of a live audience at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California.

Weir's first public performance in more than a month (he performed a private benefit earlier in June for Marin Academy) came five weeks after he canceled all public engagements to deal with an undisclosed health issue that emerged when the guitarist fell down onstage while performing with the Grateful Dead offshoot...

The Capitol Theatre holds a special place in Grateful Dead lore. A cozy auditorium about 30 miles north of Manhattan, it's the site of many shows on the bootleg A-list (see 6/24/70 and 2/19/71 for starters). Like the Fillmore East and the Carousel Ballroom, it was a place where the band liked to settle in for extended residencies in their fire-breathing early days. Unlike those venues, it still exists: Relix publisher and club impresario Peter Shapiro reopened it last fall after a state-of-the-art face lift, and the result is one of the best music halls in the country.

On Friday night, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir hosted a five-hour celebration entitled Move Me Brightly, in honor of what would have been Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday. A stirring 30-minute documentary directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, kicked off the proceedings. Then a rotating group of musicians that numbered nearly 20-deep took turns performing in various configurations, under Weir's stewardship. The event was webcast live from Weir's Tri Studios in San Rafael, California.

Fittingly, Garcia's memory was honored with musical passages that sounded...