Kicking off in Golden Gate Park, the parade will feature several speakers, including mayor Daniel Lurie
The cosmic and legendary life of Bob Weir will be celebrated this weekend in San Francisco, in a public event on Saturday, Jan. 17.
The parade will kick off at 12:45 p.m. PT in Golden Gate Park and head to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (named after the iconic promoter, who championed the Dead). The event will feature multiple speakers, including San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, who paid his respects to Weir on Monday at the Grateful Dead‘s Haight-Ashbury house.
The news of Weir’s death broke last weekend, when his family announced he’d “succumbed to underlying lung issues” after he was diagnosed with cancer in July 2025. “One of the things that I hope that I’m remembered for is bringing our culture and other cultures together — by virtue or by example of,” he told Rolling Stone earlier that year, in our final conversation with the guitarist. “I’m hoping that people of varying persuasions will find something they can agree on in the music that I’ve offered, and find each other through it.”
Jerry Garcia’s memorial was also held at Golden Gate Park in Aug. 1995, where Weir publicly thanked the frontman for “showing me how to live with joy, with mischief.” Weir spent the next 30 years carrying the Grateful Dead torch in several bands and offshoots — most recently Dead & Company — alongside late bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kretuzmann. The world continues to mourn the loss of Weir, from his Dead & Co. bandmates to celebrities like Bob Dylan, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, and the Eagles’ Don Felder.
