Grateful Dead Members Add More Shows to Final "Fare Thee Well" Run
The remaining original members of the Grateful Dead—Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir—previously announced that they’ll reunite for “Fare Thee Well”, a series of shows at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 3-5. (They’ll take place almost 20 years to the day of the band’s final concert, which took place at Soldier Field on July 9, 1995.)
Now, the band has added two more dates to their “Fare Thee Well” run. They’ll play Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on June 27 and 28. These shows are being billed as “the original members’ last-ever performances together.” The stadium in Santa Clara is close to the music store where the band first began playing together a half-century ago.
The band also shared a letter explaining the extra dates. “We will not be adding any more Fare Thee Well performances,” they say. “The three Chicago shows will still be our final stand. We decided to add these two Santa Clara shows to enable more of our fans to celebrate with us one more time. But this is it.”
The letter also says, in part:
Ours wasn’t just a long, strange trip — it was a VERY long, VERY strange trip. We weren’t sure what it was going to be like to put a punctuation mark on the end of it. None of us anticipated the overwhelming outpouring of love and interest following our initial announcement of the shows at Soldier Field, and we were blown away by the response.
We have tried to do the right thing wherever we could for the Chicago shows by honoring the roots of where we came from, while dealing with the realities of the current times. But that’s hardly comforting when you’re shit outta luck for tickets and your only option is inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites. That would piss us off too.
As with the Chicago shows, the band will use a specially designed ticketing system to reduce scalping. The details can be found here.
In Santa Clara as well as Chicago, they’ll be accompanied by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, pianist Bruce Hornsby (who played with the Dead for many years), and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, who has played with Weir and Lesh in Further and RatDog.
Read “Broken Thoughts and Hand Me-Downs”, Mark Richardson’s Resonant Frequency column on the Grateful Dead.
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