Deadheads rejoice: the Grateful Dead “Meet-Up At The Movies” will return to theaters in select territories worldwide on June 22nd and 24th.
Presented by Trafalgar Releasing and Rhino Entertainment, this year’s two-night screening will feature the band’s debut performance at Chicago’s Soldier Field on June 22nd, 1991. The show features keyboardists Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick, who filled in for Brent Mydland following his death a year earlier, and was the band’s first of nine performances at the Chicago stadium. It is widely considered one of the best shows of the Bruce-Vince era, along with with the second Giants Stadium show from a few days earlier. The band would play its final show before Jerry Garcia‘s death at the venue in 1995 and return decades later to celebrate the Dead’s 50th anniversary with Fare Thee Well.
“We are thrilled to partner with Rhino once again to bring the Grateful Dead ‘Meet-Up’ to movie theaters all around the world,” said Kymberli Frueh, SVP for Programming and Content Acquisitions for Trafalgar Releasing. “This is one of our most requested events and we are pleased to keep bringing Deadheads together in local cinemas year after year.”
In addition to the concert film, which includes footage fan favorites like “Shakedown Street”, “Brown-Eyed Women”, “Playing In The Band”, “Terrapin Station”, “Dark Star”, and more culled from the original six-camera stadium video feed with pristine soundboard audio, this year’s event will also feature bonus content including the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast Presents: Here Comes Sunshine 1973 and an introduction from Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux.
Tickets for the “2023 Meet-Up At The Movies” will go on sale on Thursday, May 11th here. Watch the event trailer below.
Grateful Dead – Meet-Up At The Movies (Soldier Field 6/22/91) Official Trailer
