Touring with the Sam Grisman Project, the 83-year-old musician recalls how he, David Grisman, and Jerry Garcia helped make bluegrass cool. One reason bluegrass music has a devoted following today is ...

Jerry Garcia and his accomplishments are worth celebrating. Founding and leading (despite never wanting credit as leader) the mother of all jam bands in The Grateful Dead, bringing bluegrass to the ...

In the spring of 1997, Deadheads tuning in to The Grateful Dead Hour, the nationally syndicated radio show, heard a rare if disconcerting treat. Over two installments, host and Dead historian David ...

A “midwife of grace.” An “oracle and a prophet of God.” The “unofficial priest of a small but powerful movement that began to sweep America for almost three decades.” To what minister of God might ...

Billy Strings is an awfully cocky stage name for a young guitarist. But he is living up to his moniker. Last year, Strings filled the Ohio State University football stadium for a concert. This year, ...

(Excerpted from “Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening” by Jim Newton. Copyright © 2025. Available from Penguin ...

It was 30 years ago tomorrow that Grateful Dead co-founder, guitarist and vocalist Jerry Garcia died in his room at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility outside of San Francisco, on Aug. 9, 1995 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Billy Strings joined Dead & Company on stage, delivering a musical nod to Jerry Garcia on the rock legend’s birthday. Billy Strings, 32, a native of Ionia County, Michigan, opened ...

Tedeschi Trucks Band kicked off Colorado Day, Jerry Garcia’s birthday and the first show of its two-night run at Red Rocks by bringing out the late Grateful Dead guitar player’s old axe. The “Travis ...

A few hundred people gathered Friday to name a tiny San Francisco street after legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia on what would have been his 83rd birthday and as part of a citywide ...