On August 3rd, 2025, Dead & Company will present the final night of their run at San Francisco, CA’s Golden Gate Park live on select IMAX screens across the U.S. and Canada. The special live simulcasts will give fans across North America the chance to experience the celebration of 60 years of the Grateful Dead‘s music with IMAX’s signature immersive visuals and precision sound.
Search for IMAX screenings of Dead & Company’s Sunday, 8/3/25 Golden Gate Park show near you here. Tickets are on sale now here. Each ticket will come with a commemorative poster and laminate/lanyard, which will be distributed onsite.
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Dead & Company will perform at Golden Gate Park on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Per a press release issued when the run was announced, each night at Golden Gate Park will begin with 75-minute special guest sets from Billy Strings (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson (Saturday), and Trey Anastasio Band (Sunday). The IMAX announcement did not specify whether the opening set by Trey Anastasio Band would be included in the Sunday, August 3rd simulcast.
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All three of the weekend’s opening acts have notable experience stepping into the Grateful Dead’s universe. Trey Anastasio, best known for his work in Phish, became the last lead guitarist to play with the “core four” of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Phil Lesh when he took up the mantle for Fare Thee Well, the five-night, two-city Grateful Dead 50th anniversary celebration back in 2015. Sturgill Simpson, the alt-country outlaw who now tours under the pseudo-alias Johnny Blue Skies, has been an active participant in Weir’s Dead Ahead destination events in Mexico and recently helped celebrate the Grateful Dead at the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors. Billy Strings, the bluegrass superstar who has always signaled his love for the Grateful Dead, has logged time with Bill Kreutzmann’s Billy & The Kids, traded sit-ins with Weir, and helped honor the Dead during the early-2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year gala.
Golden Gate Park and the Grateful Dead have shared a connection since the band’s earliest days. The Dead played numerous free concerts in the park, often with little notice, making it hard to pin down an exact number of shows, though most counts land around 14 shows in total. The long list of notable Grateful Dead dates at Golden Gate Park—a few blocks away from 710 Ashbury Street, where the band lived for several years—includes a January 1967 event when the band played alongside Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, and others in the Human Be-In, a concert widely seen as the prelude to the Summer of Love. The Grateful Dead last played in Golden Gate Park on November 3rd, 1991 as part of an event memorializing beloved San Francisco concert promoter Bill Graham, who had died a week prior in a helicopter crash.
“Golden Gate Park and the Grateful Dead share a rich, intertwined history that helped shape a cultural era,” said San Francisco Recreation and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg when the shows were announced. “Celebrating their 60th anniversary with a Dead & Company performance in the very place where the Summer of Love took root is a powerful tribute to their legacy. These concerts not only honor their cultural impact but also shine a light on the park’s surrounding neighborhood—its restaurants, local businesses, and vibrant community.”
Dead & Company—the contemporary offshoot featuring Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane—last performed in the Grateful Dead’s hometown on the final weekend of their Final Tour at Oracle Park back in 2023. While the band has played 48 public, ticketed shows since then, all of them occurred at Las Vegas, NV’s Sphere as part of multi-show residencies in 2024 and 2025.
