MusiCares Individuals of the 12 months Honoring Thankful Useless: Lineup Introduced

The lineup for the 2025 MusiCares Individual of the 12 months receive advantages gala held in tribute to the Thankful Useless in Los Angeles has been published.

On Monday (Jan. 20), The Hollywood Reporter introduced the artists connected to the Grammy Week match scheduled for Jan. 31 on the Los Angeles Conference Middle.

Useless & Corporate (which contains Thankful Useless co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart), John Mayer, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Norah Jones, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan, Vampire Weekend, Sierra Farrell and Lukas Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, Sammy Hagar, the Struggle and Treaty and the Struggle on Medicine are set for the development, in addition to earlier Thankful Useless collaborator Bruce Hornsby. Andy Cohen would be the MC.

Authentic Thankful Useless individuals Mickey Hart, Invoice Kreutzmann and Bob Weir might be identified for his or her contributions to song, their philanthropic efforts and the crowd’s pioneering function in fostering communities thru their live shows and activism. Two of the band’s founding individuals, the past due Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, who passed on to the great beyond in October, might be commemorated posthumously.

The Thankful Useless is the 3rd band to obtain the distinction, following Fleetwood Mac (2018) and Aerosmith (2020). The esteemed checklist of MusiCares Individual of the 12 months honorees additionally contains Jon Bon Jovi, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Neil Younger, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Don Henley, James Taylor, Brian Wilson, Sting, Bono, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Elton John, Stevie Marvel, Luciano Pavarotti, Phil Collins, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Bonnie Raitt and David Crosby.

It was once showed that the 2025 MusiCares Individuals of the 12 months match will move on as deliberate closing week, amid the wildfires that experience devastated the Los Angeles house. The announcement got here an afternoon after the Recording Academy mentioned the Grammys are nonetheless on for Feb. 2.

“Your attendance at Individuals of the 12 months and your ongoing generosity will beef up those endured necessary efforts, serving to the ones in pressing want and signaling to the sector that this colourful town is on its toes,” MusiCares mentioned in a observation. “At our upcoming Individuals of the 12 months, we will be able to make a unique attraction for donations to beef up our wildfire aid efforts. We invite you to sign up for us in spreading the phrase in your family and friends through sharing this hyperlink: www.musicares.org/FireRelief.”

Since 1991, the MusiCares Individual of the 12 months gala has raised finances to beef up MusiCares’ well being and human products and services techniques, which give bodily and psychological well being care, habit restoration, preventive clinics, unexpected private emergencies and crisis aid to song pros.