The MusiCares’ annual Persons of the Year Charity Gala, where the Grateful Dead are the 2025 honorees (with some “Friend of the Devil” food cake to celebrate.) “It’s an incredible honor ...

Vampire Weekend performing at the MusiCares Grateful Dead gala. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Billy Strings’ “Wharf Rat” was divine, while the lesser known “Loose ...

The 2,500 people gathered for the annual benefit concert Friday definitely knew their Grateful Dead, the revolutionary San Francisco-birthed jam band honored as 2025’s MusiCares Persons of the Year.

John Mayer jammed with Dead & Company at the lively event hosted by Andy Cohen that also included performances from Wynonna Judd, Norah Jones, Sammy Hagar, Vampire Weekend, My Morning Jacket and more.

Weir was accepting an award, along with other members of the Grateful Dead or their family members, as one of MusiCares’ Persons of the Year at the charity’s annual gala Friday night.

For a band long known for its musical elasticity, the timing of Friday’s MusiCares Persons of the Year concert honoring the Grateful Dead could not have been more on the money, literally and ...

Weir was accepting an award, along with other members of the Grateful Dead or their family members, as one of MusiCares’ Persons of the Year at the charity’s annual gala Friday night. And there was ...