Dead Heads Unite! Author Linda Kelly in conversation with Steve Heilig

Thurs. July 31st, 5pm

Come meet and hear the fabulous Linda Kelly, publisher/editor of the Haight Street Voice and author of the book Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends and Followers of the Grateful Dead!  Linda will be in conversation with MC Steve Heilig and books will be available for purchase and autographing. $10 includes admission to the fabulous museum.

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Afterwards, zip down to the opening of Mickey Hart’s exhibit “Art at the Edge of Magic” at the Haight Street Art Center, open until 9pm, just a quick Muni ride down the road at 215 Haight Street!

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Linda Kelly experienced her first concert when she was 15—the Sex Pistols’ very last show at the notorious Winterland—and has been a great lover of music ever since. She majored in journalism at San Francisco State University and has been a writer/editor for the likes of Spin Magazine, Mix Magazine, Quokka Sports, Lucasfilm, Astrology.com/NBC Universal, and even penned lyrics for the Spin Doctors. After seven years in New York City, she now lives back in her native Bay Area in the Haight-Ashbury district—just blocks away from the Grateful Dead’s home in the ’60s—where she’s busy collecting more experiences and stories to share. 

Through sweet synchronicity, she had the divine, beautiful, weird, hilarious pleasure of hanging and grooving and dancing and laughing with Jerry and Bobby and a few of their colorful cohorts (Bear, Lesh, Barlow, Leary to name a few) for a good spell in New York and California. The time spent being in that wildly unique mix of fine folks is the fodder and inspiration for this book—and for which she is infinitely grateful. 

As Bob Dylan once told Linda while she was on tour with him in 1989: “You gotta do somethin’!”