Noah Kahan, Billy Strings, Extra to Honor Thankful Useless

MusiCares‘ 2025 Individuals of the 12 months receive advantages gala, in honor of Thankful Useless, will function an A-list crew of performers. Noah Kahan, John Mayer, Useless & Corporate, Vampire Weekend, and Maren Morris are some of the lineup, Rolling Stone has realized. The development is slated for Jan. 31.

It’ll additionally function Zac Brown, Sierra Ferrell, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Dave Matthews, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Billy Strings, the Conflict on Medication, the Conflict and Treaty, Wynonna Judd, and Dwight Yoakam, RS can ascertain, amongst others. (The Hollywood Reporter used to be the primary to document the lineup.)

Useless & Corporate — which performs Thankful Useless’s tune — these days comprises Thankful Useless co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along Mayer, Jay Lane, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti. The development will most probably honor founding bassist Phil Lesh, who died in October at age 85. August 2025 additionally marks the thirty fifth anniversary of the dying of Jerry Garcia, Thankful Useless’s lead songwriter and guitarist.

The MusiCares match is among the few legit Grammys events to stay scheduled after a lot of others — together with Spotify’s Highest New Artist exhibit — had been canceled to focal point efforts on elevating cash for the ones suffering from the Los Angeles fires. MusiCares, the Academy’s non-profit established to lend a hand the tune group in occasions of combat reminiscent of screw ups or well being care, has already raised $2 million in wildfire aid finances.

Thankful Useless sign up for a protracted checklist of earlier honorees, together with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and Barbra Streisand.

This marks best the 3rd time a band (versus a unmarried artist) has won MusiCares’ annual award, following Fleetwood Mac in 2018 and Aerosmith in 2020. Garcia and Lesh can be the primary folks to obtain the distinction posthumously.

“This honor is in reality a testomony to the legacy of the tune, which has all the time been larger than us — it’s concerning the connection between us, the staff, and all those that’ve been in this lengthy ordinary travel,” Weir, Lesh, Hart, and Kreutzmann stated in a commentary simply days ahead of Lesh’s dying. “It’s now not as regards to what we create, however about ensuring the folks at the back of it, at the back of us each night time, those who quietly make all of it occur, get the enhance they want to stay going, it doesn’t matter what existence throws at them.”