The four remaining members of the Grateful Dead are coming back together for three shows in Chicago this July and they are bringing along Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio.
Billboard broke the story Friday morning with Bob Weir telling the magazine “These will be the last shows with the four of us together.”
Weir, Anastasio, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will play at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5 in shows that are sure to sell out in minutes. Also joining them is keyboardists Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti of RatDog.
Tickets will first be available via a mail in system (instructions here) starting January 20 followed by a fan club members sale from February 9 to 11, a local pre-sale on February 12 and 13 and (if there are any left) general public on February 14.
The official announcement from dead50.net:
FARE THEE WELL
We are thrilled to announce “Fare Thee Well – Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead” – to the Dead community.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir will reunite at Chicago’s Soldier Field, nearly 20 years to the day of the last-ever Grateful Dead concert, which took place at the same venue. “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” will take place over three nights – July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2015 – and mark the original members’ last-ever performance together. The band will be joined by Trey Anastasio (Guitar), Jeff Chimenti (Keyboards) and Bruce Hornsby (Piano), and will perform two sets of music each night.
In the tradition of the original Grateful Dead Ticketing Service, tickets will be available via a first come first serve mail order system starting on January 20th, followed by an online pre-sale through Dead Online Ticketing February 12th and will be available online to the general public on February 14th via Ticketmaster.
Soldiers Field in Chicago was the site of the last Grateful Dead concert in 1995.
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