‘A San Francisco homecoming’: Grateful Dead tribute shows eyed to honor band’s 60 years

by Alise Maripuu, Bay City News May 13, 2025May 12, 2025

A mural of Grateful Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia taken in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2016. Nearly 30 years since the death of the band's founder in 1995, the counterculture movement he helped inspire endures as the city prepares to celebrate the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary this summer. (Thomas Hawk/Flickr, CC BY-NC)

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Monday that he will propose holding three Dead and Company concerts this summer at Golden Gate Park in celebration of the Grateful Dead’s 60^th anniversary.

If approved, the ticketed concerts will take place Aug. 1 through Aug. 3 at the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park.

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Alise Maripuu, Bay City News

Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.

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