[UPDATED] Barton Hall Revisited: Dead & Company Confirms Intimate Benefit Concert At Cornell University Venue

UPDATE (March 8): Registration for a ticket lottery is open now through Friday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m. ET. VIP and General Admission tickets will be sold via the lottery system. Additionally, an “extremely limited” number of Travel Packages go on sale this Friday, March 10 at 1 p.m. ET at cornell23.com. Look for details of a pay-per-view video livestream, free live audio stream and SiriusXM broadcast to be announced before the show.

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Dead & Company will indeed commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Grateful Dead‘s legendary performance at Barton Hall on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by playing a show of their own at the venue on May 8, 2023. The announcement comes a few days after Dead & Co. teased the show on social media.

Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti will take the stage at the 4,800-capacity Barton Hall following their appearance at Jazz Fest in New Orleans on May 6. Dead & Company then formally launches “The Final Tour” with two nights at The Forum near Los Angeles on May 19 and 20.

Proceeds from Dead & Company’s Barton Hall concert will benefit MusiCares and The Cornell 2030 Project. A limited number of tickets will be available.

Read the note from the band confirming their “very special show” at Barton Hall below:

“Since the moment that the board tape of Cornell began circulating in the late 1980s, its legend was instantly created,” Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux stated when an official recording of the concert was announced in 2017. “Although plenty of Grateful Dead shows have been called their ‘best ever,’ in the case of Cornell this statement is rarely contested.” The Library of Congress agreed adding a recording of the band’s debut at Barton Hall to its National Recording Registry in 2012.

The Grateful Dead returned to Barton Hall on May 7, 1980 and May 16, 1981. Then, Phil Lesh & Friends (with co-headliner Bob Dylan) performed at the venue on November 15, 1999; while Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s Furthur project rocked on February 14, 2010.