SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco laid out the welcome mat over the weekend with the Grateful Dead and Company concert series launching the first of three major summer music events.

"I think over the three days we brought nearly 170,000 people into the park," Phil Ginsburg, General Manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, said.

Expanded footprint

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The city agreed to allow the producer Another Planet to expand its concert offerings beyond the Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park, now in its 17th year. This year, Another Planet was allowed to hold music events the weeks before and after Outside Lands with the Dead and Company event August 2-3 and a Zach Bryan concert on August 15.

"We're really grateful to our neighbors in the Sunset and

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