Dead & Company have announced a 2025 residency at Las Vegas venue, the Sphere.
The band – who are made up of Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir and Mickey Hart alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane – return to a venue after a wildly successful residency this year, which saw the band perform in front of the Sphere’s 240-foot screens from May to July 2024.
This time, the 2025 residency will see dates through March to May 2025. See the full list of dates below.
Dead’s first residency followed a similar engagement with U2, which was captured in concert film V-U2. Tickets for Dead & Company at the Sphere are now on sale here, with hotel packages and VIP bundles available.
Earlier this year, Grateful Dead bassist and co-founding member Phil Lesh – who was not a member of Dead & Company – died at age 84.
His former members revealed in November that there were plans for a 60th anniversary reunion that would have included Lesh. “I was hoping that we could play with him again one more time,” former Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann said. “So that, that was my sadness… ’cause I know he wanted to play with us again too.”
“We were kickin’ it around,” Dead & Company member Bob Weir added. “In fact, we were gonna, we were gonna get together and, and kick some songs around tomorrow.”
On December 22, the Grateful Dead will be recognized as part of the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors.
In other news, the band’s late frontman Jerry Garcia’s voice has been recreated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for books, articles, PDFs and more.
The late icon’s estate partnered with ElevenLabs – an AI voice company and an app – to recreate Garcia’s voice and read out audiobooks, e-books, articles, poetry, fan stories, PDFs and more in 32 different languages.
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