Trey Anastasio of Phish, Billy Strings and Sturgill Simpson were among the special guests to join the band over three nights of concert and amid a city-wide celebration.

A few hundred people gathered Friday to name a tiny San Francisco street after legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia on what would have been his 83rd birthday and as part of a citywide celebration to mark the band's 60th anniversary.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Billy Strings joined Dead & Company on stage, delivering a musical nod to Jerry Garcia on the rock legend’s birthday. Billy Strings, 32, a native of Ionia County, Michigan, opened the weekend celebration Friday,

Long-forgotten photos from the Chronicle archive capture the scene at Jerry Garcia's Golden Gate Park memorial, where 20,000 fans gathered to sing, dance and mourn the Grateful Dead guitarist.

When you walk out the exits of a major concert at Golden Gate Park onto 30th Avenue, usually you hear a chorus of vendors hawking steaming-hot bacon-wrapped hot dogs. But this weekend after the Dead & Company shows, the calls were something entirely different: “ice cold fatties.”

Inside Jerry Garcia's Final Grateful Dead Show — 30 Years Ago Today originally appeared on Parade. On July 9, 1995, Jerry Garcia played with the Grateful Dead for the final time at Soldier Field in Chicago.