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Dead & Company to stream final Golden Gate Park concert live in IMAX
Dead & Company will honor six decades of Grateful Dead music with a three-night blowout at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
But for fans unable to snag tickets to the sold-out celebration from Aug. 1-3, the band is offering a cinematic alternative: a one-night-only live broadcast of the final concert in IMAX theaters across the country.
Attendees will receive a collectible mini-poster and lanyard alongside the three-and-a-half-hour immersive concert experience.
Local showings in the Bay Area include AMC Metreon in San Francisco, AMC Bay Street in Emeryville, and others in Dublin, Santa Clara and San Jose.
The Golden Gate Park shows are expected to draw over 60,000 fans per day to the Polo Fields, where Dead & Company — featuring Grateful Dead founding members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane — will headline what many believe may be their final San Francisco stand.
Dead & Company's 8/3 performance at Golden Gate Park will stream live exclusively to select @IMAX screens. Get tickets:
Each ticket will come with a commemorative poster & laminate/lanyard, which will be distributed onsite.
— Dead & Company (@deadandcompany) July 21, 2025
Later in August, the celebration continues with a nationwide IMAX release of 'The Grateful Dead Movie,' newly remastered and presented as part of the band's annual 'Meet Up at the Movies' event.
Originally directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast, the 1977 concert film captures the band's storied 1974 Winterland Ballroom performances and will screen in 60 IMAX theaters on Aug. 13, followed by a wider release on Aug. 14.
'It was the greatest screening I've ever experienced of a film I've seen hundreds of times,' said David Lemieux, the band's archivist and legacy manager, about the film's IMAX presentation.
