MusiCares will celebrate the Grateful Dead’s legacy and monumental cultural impact during its impending Persons of the Year Gala in

Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year in a concert and ceremony taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The all-star tribute show is one of the few annual

Vampire Weekend, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, The War on Drugs, Noah Kahan, and Bruce Hornsby will also play the charity concert held during Grammys week.

Dave Matthews, Norah Jones, Sammy Hagar, John Mayer and Zac Brown will perform Jan. 31 at the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year tribute concert honoring the Grateful Dead. Other artists confirmed for the annual pre-Grammy Awards fundraising concert at the Los Angeles Convention Center include two longtime associates of the Grateful Dead — John Mayer and Bruce Hornsby — along with

The Grateful Dead are set to be honored as this year’s MusiCares ‘Persons of the Year’ with an all-star tribute concert leading up to the GRAMMYs in early February featuring performances from Vampire Weekend,

Every year, the Recording Academy uses the weekend of the Grammy Awards to salute a musical legend with its MusiCares benefit show. This year, the MusiCares Persons Of The Year — awkward-ass phrase — are the Grateful Dead,