The MusiCares Individuals of the 12 months profit gala, one in every of a number of official pre-Grammy Awards capabilities scheduled to happen in Los Angeles forward of the Feb. 2 present, will go on with its tribute to the Grateful Useless on Jan. 31 and a few large names are connected, sources reveal.
The Hollywood Reporter has been tipped to the slated performers on the lineup. They embody: Useless & Firm, John Mayer, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Norah Jones, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan, Vampire Weekend, Sierra Farrell and Lukas Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, the Struggle and Treaty, Sammy Hagar, Zac Brown and the Struggle on Medicine. Earlier Grateful Useless collaborator Bruce Hornsby can also be anticipated and pal of the band, and Bravo TV host, Andy Cohen — himself a longtime Deadhead who has hosted Weir on Watch What Occurs — will MC the night.
An official announcement is due out imminently. THR has reached out to organizers of the occasion, which incorporates the Recording Academy, and reps for the band.
Useless & Co. is at present comprised of Grateful Useless co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti filling the ranks. Since 2024, Jay Lane has been filling in for Invoice Kreuztmann on drums.
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Sure to make this 12 months’s tribute much more poignant, the higher Grateful Useless household noticed the lack of a founding member final 12 months when bassist Phil Lesh died in October on the age of 84. And this August marks 35 years since Jerry Garcia’s demise at 53.
Useless & Co. is coming off of a defining 12 months for the band. In 2024, they took residence on the Sphere in Las Vegas for a collection of reveals below the banner “Useless Endlessly.” Initially booked for 18 weekend dates, they might performs 30 reveals in whole from Could to August 2024. The run grossed over $130 million and has set the template for future acts to make the most of the state-of-the-art and its immersive audio-visual capabilities. They return to the Sphere this spring to mark the tenth anniversary of Useless & Co.
If ever there was a time to understand the Useless’s personal lyrics — “We are going to get by, we are going to survive” — it’s now within the wake of damaging wildfires which have consumed complete L.A.-area neighborhoods. MusiCares has pledged monetary help for musicians and trade professionals within the type of its Los Angeles Hearth Reduction Effort and the occasion will even emphasize the group’s fire-related help initiatives.
Earlier MusiCares Particular person of the 12 months honorees embody Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac, Lionel Richie, Jon Bon Jovi, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand.
Based by the Recording Academy in 1989, MusiCares is a U.S.-based nonprofit that gives help for the music group via direct monetary grant applications, networks of help assets, and tailor-made disaster reduction efforts.
