Grateful Festival

06/14/2026

Go time for the 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash! Can't wait to see you all again in Flagstaff . Grab your tickets now and head for the cool hills!

The 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash is here, see the lineup, buy the tickets, tell your friends! Join us for the most rootingest tootingest Jerryest event around!!! Proud to announce two days of Shaky Feelin (sat. & sun.), Flagship of Fools , The Harvest , Rainin Moonshine Band, Red Eye Gin Band , Mama Tried Grass, Craig Yarbrough , Pigg Ben & Dead Ass! Nine long sets of music over Aug. 1st & 2nd at the Fort Tuthill Barn in Flagstaff, AZ. Raising money for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona , The Haven Walker Music Scholarship Fund and United Way N AZ. Free Parking. Free Reentry. $5 Beers. The famous Silent Auction items that rock, and raise money for our essential Charity 501(C)3 non profits. Go to Gratefulfestival.com and click the ticket links! Thank you. This 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash is always humbled by your support of our charities, our bands, our community. Message us here or email [email protected] if you wish to donate items or help with this fun show!

06/13/2026

The 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash is coming! Bigger. Better. So much Jerry. August 1st and 2nd, 2026. Tix on sale soon.

2026 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash: NOW WITH 50% MORE BANDS! That's right people. The years of 3 bands or six bands are in the past. This Jerry Bash will have 9 sets of music! Looonger Saturday. Slightly longer Sunday. Still over at a very reasonable time, so everyone can get home safely and early. Tix and info soon! 50% more, 1000% awesome! Come celebrate Jerry and the boys AND raise money for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona and The Haven Walker Music Scholarship Fund and more. Be cool, stay cool, come join us Aug. 1st & 2nd in the Mountains of Flagstaff. Literally cooler than where you may currently be! Painting by Lilith Lavender! (Silent Auction item!)

06/10/2026

Artists! Painters! We need YOU! The 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash is coming up on Aug. 1st and 2nd 2026. Your magical skills can help raise needed money for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona , The Haven Walker Music Scholarship Fund and the United Way, AND put money in your pocket. If you want to help the Flagstaff community, message us here, or [email protected]

Thank you! Together we have raised over #142,000 for local non profits! You are awesome. Please spread the word.

06/09/2026

The Terrpain Trio crawls again! July 3rd, 2026, Bellemont AZ right outside Flagstaff. Join Tony, Michael and Eric, playing 3 guitars and the songs you love. This is at the wonderful Barefoot Trail. Immerse yourself in the soft earth and sweet sounds.

06/08/2026

Who is crazy? We are. Already working on GF27, talking bands, staff, flow, reviewed all the feedback forms we got. Let's go!

06/06/2026

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06/05/2026

Thank you Box of Rain for bringing your mobile memorial to Grateful Festival. It truly let's people share, grieve, honor and remember loved ones. Thank you. NFA.

The 7th Annual Grateful Festival remembers…

NFA Bobby, Phil ♡, Jerry, + Brent ! & Pigpen ♡♡♡.

Donna Jean Godchaux Mackay

Bob Weir

Steve Strom 🌹

Craig Marshall QB

Polly Abrams

Stephen Pilon - you are out the door, You are missed already 1♡ - Paula

Perry Lumte

Holly Peckinpaugh

Susan Petro-Carlson

Felice

Mike Pacheco

Peg Ianuzzi

Renne Kennedy

Brian Kelemen

Sheri ~★

Taylor

We love you WALTER

Jan Bigart ☮️♡

Roger ♡

Thomas

Tracy Sheridan

My Bill, Janice 5/26/24 Papa Bear ♡

Josiah Hilderbrand ♡

Amore

TAMMY

Jackie

Jim Ewens♡

Jesse Colin Young

Desi Cottrell

Theo Jamison

Billy Pedole

DAVID COLE

Jimmy Alcott

MOM + DAD, YOU ARE IN MY HEART FOREVER + EVER.

Linda & Katie Fellnor

Gary Johnson - Rock On

♡ Karen Jansz

Lorri Pate

Grace Dunn

Grant Backerman

Steve Backerman

Thomas W. Bower

Sally

William Meneally

TOM Rude, Crude, + Socially Unacceptable!

Hippie Mark Searcy

SIOUXZI RAINBOW

Patty Westerman Miss YOU!

Papa ❤︎ David Smith :P

Julio Rojo ☼♡

JAK JR.

My OLDER BROTHER, NICK BLAZIS ❤︎

♡ MOM TRACEY TUCKER STURGESS

Harry Smith, 22

♡ Jerry Keenan ♡

Edward P. Kimak 12-28-57 ~ 4-11-26 Thanks for getting me on the bus. One Love, Shin

Dad - Jim Reich

Tom Harvey R.I.P

Michael

Shirley Simkins

Roz Berlin

Toby Toblerone

Bob Marshall “Dad”

JIM HARRIS

Harry

Peggy Iannuzi

Lillian ☮️ Gramma

Heidi Anderson

Bowie Ballinger 7-18-2018 ~ 6-27-2025

REID DAVIS

RENNEE KENNEDY ♡

BECKY AT THE BEACH Love Peace

Brian Woods ♡

STU

KIM COPELAND

Jason SWFITY

DEAN AND MARLYS JOHNSON

Gloria Johnson Shine ON

Andre Johnson Drive ON

COUSIN RICK POWELL / RIP MENTOR MY CUZ

Joanne W. Daly ♡

Mama Laura ♡

BROTHER FRANK

Robert E. Kelley DAD

“SAMMY” J.J Wish our love for music could’ve intersected more

Michael J. Russell

WAYLAND NIEL HALL

Catherine Meeks - Sweet Sister

John Meeks - Dear Dad

John Dennis

Colette Gene Catherine

Guillermo & Agustina Gamboa R.I.P

Jim, Callie, + Jaidyn

Ira Conner gimme the newssss

Aunt Peg Russell ♡

Janet Mastrolilo gram♡

RICK HEGSTAD

♡ TOMMY CARL ♡

This was the best attempt to translate the writing from the notes left in the Box.
If you see your info and it needs any editing please know you are welcome to kindly notify us of the corrections needed.
We can’t add any more to the list as this was the list that entered the Box of Rain at the 7TH Annual GRATEFUL FESTIVAL 2026;
FORT TUTHILL FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA.
Look for us at a future fest…
We pray for love, peace, and healing to all hearts. ~NFA

06/04/2026

Need one more band! Send us a private message. Please, no comments. Thanks! This is a smaller regional fundraising event for local charities Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona and Haven Walker Music Scholarship Fund among others. But if John Mayer wants to come, we will let him. We dont think we have a budget for bands from further away.

Who is ready for the 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash? Lineup is almost complete to announce and get tix on sale. BUT, we have a band who can no longer make it. So.... message us if your band is available and we will talk!

06/01/2026

Reminder, please fill out the feedback Survey forms soon. We are meeting as a team to recap GF26, and would love to hear your experiences , so we make grate decisions for GF27!

Hello Friends,

Wow. What an amazing weekend. Still in a daze. This is 100% due to YOU! You are the secret ingredient to making Grateful Festival so special. If you do not mind, we strive for continuous improvement, and have prepared a feedback Survey form we would like your input on. Please reply if you can, so we can make GF27 the best one yet! Also, please follow us on Facebook and Instagram, that is where we post info and updates. Lastly, if you did have a good time, please consider leaving a "review" on the Grateful Festival page. It really helps.

Here is the link to the form:
https://forms.gle/yxbr8FrpCsmyQm7RA

Once again, I am very humbled with all the love you have given us. It truly means the world to my wife, son and I. As you probably saw, we are a small grassroots organic festival. We fund this entirely ourselves. No corporate sponsors, no free money, we donate lots of money to charities, over $142,000 so far. If you are interested in learning more about GF or being more involved, hit me up! [email protected] We would love to find new ways to make the experience greater, more free stuff and a better Grateful Festival for all of us.

Thank you all again, we are still amazed by your support,

Tony, Laura and Sam Abrams

05/31/2026

Thank you! To each fan who came, from near and far, every volunteer who helped make this Grateful Festival a reality, the staff who kept us all fed, hydrated, knowing what to do, Cubensis , Electric Waste Band , Easy Jim, Music of the Grateful Dead , Xtra Ticket , Legion of Mario , Easy Wind , Flagship of Fools , Bush League , Crosstown Players , BrotherSound , Red Eye Gin Band, Dave Logan Band , Craig Yarbrough , Pamela S. Cox , each of you just brought it! The amazing vendors, your artistry is top notch. So many people collectively make this event special and so humbling for me and my family. We cannot wait to make nice donations to Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona and multiple other non profits here in town. This picture of the incredible banner hand made by the one and only Kate Pharris means so much to me! The sound teams of Chris, Jordan and James inside made that impossible room sound Grate! Sam and Mike made the outside sound perfect. Troy Morentin put on killer light shows. So many people, did so many things at Grateful Festival, impossible to name them all, and would disappoint myself if I excluded any of you. YOU are AWESOME. YOU made this event special for EVERYONE. May 28th, 29th, 30th, 2027 - save the dates!!! So much love and gratitude to all of you. I do have mention Cheryl Mossman of course, NOTHING happens with out her. Recap: each of you kicked sass and this doesn't happen with out you. Also a shout out to my incredible wife Laura Noone Abrams and son Sam, who allow me to miss family time, to have family community time with y'all. So many people make this happen and it was the most successful Grateful Festival to date. Until next year. Send in those feedback forms so we can evolve and continuous improve. Ramble is over. Love to all. Thank you all. PS, the 19th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash is Aug 1st and 2nd in flag 😀