Grateful Fridays
Friday May 30 at 7:00PM
Grateful Fridays #2 Beginning at 6:00 in the Magic Theatre
An evening of weaving through Fort Mason Center and all it has to offer.
You can start out at the Magic, Building D, third floor at 6:00 for drinks and cocktails, maybe a few nibbles while we spin Grateful Dead songs.
Then at 6:50, we make our way to the Fort Mason Night Market where Sunshine Garcia Becker and Friends perform until 8:00 PM.
At 8:00 we can make our way back to the Magic Theatre where Rory McNamara & special guests will jam for another hour. Drinks (and whatever nibbles are left over) and music will continue to flow
This is the second evening of a season of remembrance, resurrection, and radiant song in preparation for Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission—coming to the Magic Theatre, October–November 2025.
Created by Culture Clash’s Richard Montoya, and directed by Rotimi Agbabiaka and dramaturgy by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission is a visionary new musical chronicling Jerry’s childhood in San Francisco’s Excelsior District and imagining a celestial reunion with his parents—returning to the origin to reckon with the soul. With the heartfelt blessing of Trixie Garcia, Jerry’s daughter, this is not merely a tribute, but a calling: a chance to honor the boy behind the icon, and the mother and father who shaped him.
The soundtrack will resurrect the beloved spirit songs of 1960s San Francisco—a lost, working-class era filled with union halls, dive bars, and Fillmore families—when music was sacrament and survival. At Grateful Friday, we open the doors to that time, not in nostalgia, but in a search for what still rings true.
This is not just a concert. It’s the lighting of a lamp in The City’s mythic dark. A communion of song and spirit, shadow and shine.
Pre-show Advanced Tickets: $20
Post-show Advanced Tickets: $20
Special deal on both in Advance: $30
Tickets at the door: $25/each event
Come be part of the beginning.