The Grateful Lifeless are the 2025 MusiCares Individuals of the Yr. Unique members Mickey Hart, Invoice Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bobby Weir, in addition to the late bandleader Jerry Garcia, will likely be honored for his or her music and philanthropy with a tribute night time on the Los Angeles Conference Middle on Friday, January 31, 2025, two days earlier than the Grammy Awards.
The surviving band members mentioned in a press release, “It’s easy: all of us want music. It speaks to every of us, providing what we have to face what life presents—enhancing our joys, serving to us unfold them, and making our sorrows simpler to bear. We will’t think about a world with out it. As our ol’ pal, Jerry, used to say, ‘You get some, you give some again,’ a tremendously efficient solution to share these advantages.”
The award, they added, is “a testomony to the legacy of the music, which has all the time been greater than us—it’s concerning the connection between us, the crew, and all those that’ve been on this lengthy unusual journey. It’s not nearly what we create, however about ensuring the folks behind it, behind us each night time, those who quietly make all of it occur, get the assist they should hold going, it doesn’t matter what life throws at them.”
Laura Segura, government director of MusiCares, mentioned the band’s “legacy transcends music, having constructed a group of followers and collaborators that embody the spirit of connection and assist, one thing that’s deeply aligned with MusiCares’ mission. The band’s ardour for the humanities and philanthropy, together with their enduring dedication to social causes, has made an enduring impression that goes past the stage. It’s a privilege to have a good time their contributions to each music and humanity.”
As ever, the festivities profit what MusiCares describes as its “well being and human companies packages, which provide bodily and psychological well being care, habit restoration, preventive clinics, unexpected private emergencies, and catastrophe aid to music professionals.” The 2024 MusiCares Particular person of the Yr was Jon Bon Jovi.
