

The extra ticket means her brother’s wife gets to join the fun.

She plans to take her younger Deadhead brother and has heard from a Cornell administrator inviting her to come to the show as a guest because of her past commission status and pivotal role in producing the 1977 concert. O’Brien, who chaired the concert commission the year prior to the legendary show and still has the T-shirt that gave her all-access status, said she put her name in the lottery for alumni who were at the school in ’77 and was lucky enough to get two tickets.

The upcoming show was an instant hot ticket, with separate lotteries for alumni and alumni who were at Cornell from the years 1977 through 1980. It’s a fund-raiser for the Recording Academy’s MusiCares organization, which provides a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music industry, and Cornell University’s 2030 Project, which aims to develop climate change solutions. On May 8 of this year, the day marking the 46th anniversary of the show, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, three members of the original group, will take the Barton Hall stage as part of Dead & Company’s final tour.
