San Francisco Will Remember Bob Weir With Special ‘Homecoming’ Event

The late Grateful Dead legend Bob Weir will be remembered in his hometown, San Francisco, this weekend with a special tribute to his life and career.

“Homecoming: Celebrating the life of Bobby Weir” will move through SF this Saturday, Jan. 17 at Civic Center Plaza, starting at 3:45pm ET.

The free public gathering will remember Weir, whose “music, spirit and humanity shaped generation,” reads a statement from organizers. “Together, we will pay tribute in the community and collective heartbeat that he created.”

Reps say this weekend’s special salute is not a concert and there will be no live performances, but will instead center on “gratitude, remembrance, and togetherness,” along with special tributes to honor the late artist. 

Also, a procession will travel three blocks down Market Street between 7th and 9th Streets at approximately 3:30pm ET.

Weir, the guitarist and jam-band pioneer who co-founded the Grateful Dead and continued their legacy in the 21st century with Furthur, Dead & Company and more, died last week due to underlying lung issues after fighting cancer. He was 78. And he was one of San Francisco’s most treasured sons.

In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre. Weir’s loping, syncopated guitar style, modeled after “McCoy Tyner’s left hand,” may not have made much sense in a traditional rock band, but to the Dead, it was a crucial puzzle piece.

“Homecoming: Celebrating the life of Bobby Weir” location: 

Civic Center Plaza *Please enter through Fulton Plaza.

335 McAllister St

San Francisco, CA 

RSVP at the link here.