Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary History Celebration

An evening of history lectures and rare artifacts of SF’s 1960s rock icons.

Widely regarded as a 1960s icon, the shaggy part that stood for the unruly whole, the Grateful Dead were also the nation’s top touring act more than two decades after Woodstock.

What accounts for their lasting appeal?

Please help us answer that question, situate the Dead in their time and place, and celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary with historian and bestselling author Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Meriwether, and Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead. Dr. Anthea Hartig, California Historical Society Executive Director will moderate the discussion.

From 5:30 to 6:00 CHS Archivists will showcase materials related to the Grateful Dead, Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco’s 1960s rock’n’roll scene.

6:00 Panel Discussion begins.

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