Photos: Grateful Dead’s Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros rock out with Stanford Symphony Orchestra

Grateful Dead legend Bobby Weir was joined onstage by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra for a two-set show that drew a full house to one of the most beautiful concert settings in all of California.

The 76-year-old San Francisco native, who was raised in Atherton and has long called Marin County home, played the outdoor Frost Amphitheater on the Stanford University campus Sunday evening.

Weir was accompanied by his regular Wolf Bros band — with the supersized lineup of Don Was on double bass, Jay Lane on drums, Jeff Chimenti on keyboard and Barry Sless on pedal steel guitar. There was also the Wolfpack, the string and brass quintet of violinist Mads Tolling, cellist Alex Kelly, trumpeter Brian Switzer, trombonist Adam Theis and multi-instrumentalist Sheldon Brown.

Surrounding Weir and his Wolf men on three sides was the acclaimed collegiate orchestra featuring a membership of 115 undergraduate and graduate students. Leading the way throughout the evening was the dynamic conductor Paul Phillips, who is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford.

Stanford Symphony Orchestra conductor Paul Phillips performs with Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack at the Frost Amphitheater in Palo Alto, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

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