Barry Sless
Born to Soar the Sky: Celebrating Bobby Weir's Birthday
- Date
- Friday, October 16, 2026
- Started
- 7:00 PM PDTDoors 6:00 PM
- Venue
- San Francisco County Fair BuildingSan Francisco, CA
- Admission
- Not listedAll ages
Weir's birthday, played by Barry Sless, Jay Lane, Mookie Siegel, Pete Sears, Stephen Inglis, Sheldon Brown, Alex Kelly, Brian Switzer, Adam Theis and Mads Tolling, with Sunshine Garcia Becker and Jeff Pehrson. A share of the takings goes to the Furthur Foundation.
About the band
Barry Sless
Fairfax, CA
Barry Sless is a Marin guitarist and pedal steel player whose road into the Dead's world ran through Kingfish in the 1970s and the David Nelson Band, which he has co-led since 1994. He toured for years in Phil Lesh & Friends, has been in Moonalice since 2007, and joined Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros in 2022; his other bands include Green Leaf Rustlers and Skeleton Crewe. The pedal steel is what he is known for here — it turns the Dead's country side into full country-rock, and it is why he is on so many Bay Area Dead bills. Moonalice nights are mostly their own songs, so only the nights a room bills as the Dead's are listed here.
The venue
San Francisco County Fair Building
1199 9th Ave · San Francisco, CA
The Hall of Flowers at 9th and Lincoln, on the Golden Gate Park side of the Inner Sunset. Home through autumn 2026 to Forever Grateful, the Haight Street Art Center's Grateful Dead exhibition, and to the concert series playing inside it.
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