The Grateful Dead have been named the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year, with the legendary jam band to be feted at a Grammy week gala in January. Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and the late Jerry Garcia will all be honored at the all-star event at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Jan.

The Grateful Dead has been named as the 2025 Persons of the Year by MusiCares, with the band’s original members due to be feted at the organization’s annual gala concert and dinner on Jan. 31, two days prior to the Grammys.

In celebration of the legendary band’s 60th anniversary, The Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year at the organization’s benefit gala during Grammy Week.

Earlier this year, Grateful Dead were one of several acts to receive a Kennedy Center Honor. Today, MusiCares revealed the seminal rock band as its 2025 Persons Of The Year.

On October 23 the Recording Academy announced that the legendary band The Grateful Dead will be honored as MusiCares Persons of the Year for 2025. Original members of the band Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann,

MusiCares, the non-profit organization established by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, announced that The Grateful Dead have been selected as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year.

Bob Minkin Since forming from the revolutionary crosswinds of the Bay Area’s counterculture in 1965, the Grateful Dead have accrued a legacy

Grateful Dead, a band that was never even nominated for a Grammy, and which became one of the most legendary live acts in history despite having a grand total of one top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100,

The Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year based not only on their musical legacy but philanthropic efforts.