For the eighth consecutive year, theaters across the country will take part in the Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies, with 500 theaters across the country participating through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network screening of a classic Dead performance Wednesday, Aug 1.  This summer’s event will mark the fifth Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies to feature a concert from 1989.

The nationwide gathering this year will take place on August 1, which sadly would have been the 76th birthday of the late Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia.
This special one-night event will feature the Grateful Dead’s July 7, 1989 show at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia during the height of the band’s late-1980s commercial peak, marking the band’s final performance at the venue.