By Edward Segarra, USA Today | Bob Weir’s send-off will be fit for a California rock ‘n’ roll king. The acclaimed musician and founding member of the Grateful Dead, who died on Jan. 10, is set to be honored with a public memorial in the band’s hometown of San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 17, according to a press release for the event.
In addition to a memorial service, the commemorative ceremony will include a procession, which is scheduled to travel three blocks down Market Street in the heart of the city.
“A short sacred stop on his homecoming journey, the gathering will center on gratitude, remembrance and togetherness, along with special tributes to honor Bobby,” a statement for the event reads. There will be no live musical performances at the memorial.
Weir, who was diagnosed with cancer in July, died from “underlying lung issues” at age 78, according to a post shared on his official Instagram page. A representative for Weir confirmed the post’s accuracy to USA TODAY at the time but had no further information on Weir’s death.
The psychedelic rocker, alongside Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, formed the Grateful Dead in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1960s amid the decade’s counterculture movement.
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When is the Bob Weir memorial?
Weir’s memorial, “Homecoming: Celebrating the Life of Bobby Weir,” will take place on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 12:45 p.m. PT at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco.
Prior to the service, a procession will take place between 7th and 9th Streets at approximately 12:30 p.m. PT.
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Read the full story here:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/grateful-deads-bob-weir-open-163502448.html
https://www.nytimes.com/section/obituaries
Thanks to Todd Caron and Larry Dye for alerting us to Mr. Weir’s passing.
OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
From Kevin Dooley: Very sad news for our Longmont music community. Just heard that Davy Allard passed away yesterday. He has been valiantly battling cancer since the day I met him at Larry’s Guitars more than a decade ago. Was so happy to see he played at Rosalee’s a while back. What a fine man and musician who loved that Bakersfield sound and made it his own . I salute a life well lived and tonight I’ll put a candle in the window and raise a glass to the man.
Photo: Davy Allard | From his Facebook page | https://www.facebook.com/davy.allard
Mike Maurer: (The Revivalists) honors fan: Dan posted this at a show while back- he said how proud he was and there was way more to come – he was a part of the band. I remember first getting the news and thinking, “Can I even perform?” It’s like I was hit by a brick wall – not sure how to go forward. While thinking, two songs, back-to-back: Cash Daddy sang bass, and Keep Going by the Revivalist. Dan was a big fan.
I had my answer. Cash Song lyrics “Little brother has done gone on, but I’ll rejoin him in a song.” Revivalist – keep going. Whole song was relevant. But one line “never gonna lose you, got you deep inside my chest. . . got keep going, keep going “
As hard as it was, I kept going. I know he is with me on stage. He would love that the Federal Theater re-opened.
I will never heal completely but have accepted the reality and have made peace and there is so much life and love out there.
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Posting for my Veteran/singer/songwriter/musician friend Troy Hoss: Heavy on my heart so here goes: This is a very real problem … 22 Veterans a day surrender to their demons. #SuicideAwareness | Call Veteran’s Hotline: 988 #1 or 844-647-1354
From Care2 via Jock Bartley on Facebook: Trump shut down our LGBTQ+ suicide and mental health hotline, but CANADA opened a US toll-free number to theirs… so our citizens can get help anytime, at no cost: 1-877-330-6366
Kindness & empathy have no borders.
If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
January 2026
13: Seán Ó Sé, 89, Irish tenor singer.
12: Sheila Bernette, 94, English singer (The Good Old Days, The Black and White Minstrel Show) and actress (The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins); *John Forté, 50, American rapper (Refugee Camp All-Stars) and producer (The Score); *Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, 26, British guitarist (Black Midi).
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-01-14/john-forte-dead-musician-fugees
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/matt-kwasniewski-kelvin-guitarist-for-black-midi-dead-at-26
11: Prashant Tamang, 43, Indian singer (Indian Idol) and actor (Paatal Lok), cardiac arrest; John Wallace, 76, Scottish trumpeter, composer and arts educator.
10: Yeison Jiménez, 34, Colombian singer, plane crash; Bob Weir, 78, American Hall of Fame musician (Grateful Dead) and songwriter (“Sugar Magnolia”, “One More Saturday Night”), complications from cancer.
9: Terry Sullivan, 87, British drummer (Renaissance).
8: Dave Hitchcock, 76, English record producer (In the Land of Grey and Pink, Foxtrot, The Snow Goose) and accountant; Dieudonné Larose, 80, Haitian singer; Rhoda Levine, 93, American opera director and choreographer; Guy Moon, 63, American composer (The Fairly OddParents, Big Time Rush, Danny Phantom), traffic collision; Álvaro Peña-Rojas, 82, Chilean-German singer and songwriter; Matthew Taylor, 57–58, American musician (Bellini) and artist, heart attack.
7: James Bernard, American music journalist and magazine editor (The Source, XXL); Ihor Blazhkov, 89, Ukrainian conductor; Rebecca Kilgore, 76, American jazz vocalist.
6: Jim McBride, 78, American country music songwriter (“Chasing That Neon Rainbow”, “(Who Says) You Can’t Have It All”, “Chattahoochee”).