Dear Jerry: Celebrating The Music Of Jerry Garcia was recorded live at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia Maryland on Thursday, May 14, 2015. This historic one-night concert event honored the music of Jerry Garcia, one of the most influential musicians and cultural icons of our time. The two and half hour concert film and available audio recordings feature over 20 once-in-a-lifetime performances from this momentous event by Phil Lesh & Communion, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann's Billy & the Kids, Mickey Hart, Eric Church, Jimmy Cliff, The Disco Biscuits, Peter Frampton, David Grisman, Jorma Kaukonen, Los Lobos, Buddy Miller, Moe., O.A.R., Grace Potter, Allen Toussaint, Trampled By Turtles, Widespread Panic, and Yonder Mountain String Band.
Acting
Eric Church's unlikely, committed jam-band cosplay.
Direction
Captures the sweaty, communal magic of live music.
Production
Phil Lesh's bass still sounds like church bells.
Director
Conor McAnally
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Allen Toussaint's final filmed performance before his death five months later—his 'Get Out of My Life, Woman' became unintentionally elegiac.
The Merriweather Post Pavilion was chosen because Garcia played his final show with the Grateful Dead there in 1995, making this a full-circle séance.
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