The Grateful Dead will reunite for one last time

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Twenty years after the death of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, the four surviving members of the legendary rock band are set to reunite.

The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann will play three 50th anniversary shows on July 3-5 at Chicago's Solider Field, with Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio filling in for Garcia, Billboard reports. The shows, which will likely be the last three that the "core four" will play together, also mark 20 years since the Dead's last performance with Garcia a month before his death in August 1995. —Samantha Rollins

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Samantha Rollins

Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.