Grateful Guitars Foundation

08/25/2026

There's still time to catch Forever Grateful at the Haight Street Art Center, GGF founder Andy Logan just rotated in some new axes to check out up close. See you there!

08/24/2026

Help us wish our dear friend Oteil Burbridge a very happy birthday!
All the best on your next trip around the sun 🌞

08/20/2026

Exciting news! GGF is thrilled to announce two special gifts in the Twin Cities! On September 26, our friends at B E R T H A: Grateful Drag take the stage at the legendary First Avenue & 7th St Entry and we’ll be there to present bass player Jacob Groopman a brand new bass rig.
In honor of this gift, we’re also making a $5000 contribution to Northside School of Music, a Minneapolis non-profit dedicated to making music education accessible to everyone in North Minneapolis with sliding-scale tuition so that cost is NEVER a barrier to learning.

Tickets to BERTHA at First Avenue on 9/26 are available now, this concert also benefits Twin Cities Pride. Get yours now at the link in the comments.

08/14/2026

Thank you again and again to The Hamilton Live for making us a part of their Days Between celebration. We were so proud to present Steely Dead's Dylan Teifer with a new keyboard and make a financial contribution Music For Life in his honor, then be able to FINALLY make a formal gift presentation to our friend and ambassador Bella Rayne of her gold-top Les Paul. We also made new friends, Better Off Dead Band, who are holding it down in the mid-Atlantic.

Thank you to everyone who came out and to the incredible team at The Hamilton - you rock.

08/09/2026

A loss impossible to quantify except for in years, we're grateful for every moment shared and know that every note left behind is a frequency forever changed.
Thank you.

Jerry Garcia at Kaiser Convention Center, 1992 by Susana Millman

08/06/2026

08/06/2026

GGF Marks The Days Between at TheHamilton Live This Weekend

On Friday, August 7, GGF will be in Washington, D.C. to present Steely Dead keyboardist Dylan Teifer with a new keyboard, continuing the foundation's mission of putting the right gear in the hands of musicians who embody the jam band spirit.

Alongside the instrument gift, GGF will make a financial contribution of $5,000 to Music For Life, the D.C.-area non-profit serving more than 800 middle and high school students, along with programming that reaches youth across 23 Title I elementary and special education schools in the region.

The celebration continues on Saturday, August 8 when Better Off Dead Band will perform with special guest and GGF recipient and ambassador, Bella Rayne.

Tickets for both nights are available now here https://live.thehamiltondc.com/calendar

08/05/2026

As Days Between rolls along, we’re continuing to feature a special collection of artifacts at both Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester and Garcia’s Chicago 🌹

On display at Garcia’s Port Chester is a beautiful replica of Jerry Garcia’s iconic Rosebud guitar, generously on loan from Grateful Guitars Foundation. Originally built by luthier Doug Irwin, Rosebud became an important part of Jerry’s sound throughout the Grateful Dead’s later years and remains a lasting symbol of his musical legacy and constant sonic exploration.

08/04/2026

Thank you so much to our friends at Dark Star Orchestra for spending the weekend with us at the The William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley at their Rex Foundation benefit. We are so grateful to have shared Jerry Garcia's Alligator guitar from our founder Andy Logan's private collection on the anniversary of it's last time on stage with Jerry (8/1/73), and to have so many beneficiaries present honoring Jerry on his birthday.
We can't wait to see you all again.

Photos by Bob Minkin Photography