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During their final tour, Dead & Company raises $2 million for charity through memorabilia auctions.
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Dead & Company has raised a cumulative sum to $4,000,984 for charities since 2015.
Dead & Company is selling its most valuable assets for a good cause. The band, which includes former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, as well as John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane, has raised a total of $2 million through memorabilia auctions staged during the band’s Final Tour.
The Dead & Company Final Tour came to an end on July 16 with a sold-out event at San Francisco’s Oracle Park. By the end of the tour, which included stops in Colorado, Washington, California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere, auctions from the group’s Participation Row — the charity social action village that has traveled with the Dead & Company tour for the past eight years — had raised $2 million in new funding from selling memorabilia, bringing the total amount raised for charities since 2015 to $4,000,984.
The San Francisco gigs “raised over $700,000 to benefit HeadCount, Reverb, and other favorite Dead Family non-profit organizations,” according to HeadCount, a non-profit advocating voting rights on which Weir serves as a board member. This included a staggering $275,000 for the official tour guitar, $238,000 for the guitar honoring the last gigs in San Francisco, over $150,000 for one-of-a-kind pieces of Mickey Hart’s fine art, and other miscellaneous goods that rounded out the total.
In addition to the Participation Row auctions, Dead & Company contributed two dollars from each ticket sale to HeadCount and sponsored other promotions on their official website to further engage DeadHeads.
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