In honor of late musical legend and environmental advocate Bobby Weir, the Music Sustainability Alliance has today (March 31) announced the introduction of the Bobby Award. This award will acknowledge individuals and organizations in the music industry whose work advances environmental responsibility and climate action.
The first of these awards will be presented at the Music Sustainability Summit on April 14 in Los Angeles. The award is presented with the support of the family of the musical legend, who passed away on January 10 at age 78.
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“Bobby always strived to leave nothing but bare footprints on the Earth,” the Weir family says in a statement. “If it was helpful to the planet, animals, or others, it was always a yes for him. He spent decades encouraging the music world to consider its impact on the land, the climate, and future generations. We appreciate the opportunity to support MSA as it recognizes leaders carrying that spirit forward.”
Music Sustainability Alliance co-founder and CEO Amy Morrison added, “Bobby Weir has long demonstrated how music can inspire care for the planet, and we’re honored to have the support of the Weir family to recognize the innovators and leaders transforming the music industry and turn that spirit into real environmental progress. We hope the awards will shine a spotlight on the people across the music ecosystem who are proving that sustainability and creativity can move forward together.”
Award nominations are currently being solicited from the MSA community of artists, venues, crews, vendors, labels, promoters, managers and platforms, in addition to the Weir family and other close associates. The honoree will be selected by a judging committee made up of a Weir family representative and music industry sustainability leaders including Morrison, Joel Makower, Rev Lennox Yearwood Jr. and Kurt Langer. Award criteria includes the impact, influence and innovation of the work along with an established commitment to advancing sustainability across the music industry through education, collaboration and measurable action.
See the complete program for the 2026 Music Sustainability Summit here.
Weir was a longtime environmental activist, using his position as a founding member of the Grateful Dead to push for environmental protections for rainforests and other wild lands. Over the years, he worked on these issues with agencies including the United Nations, Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network.
“The timber barons and extractive industries have had their way with our national forests for long enough,” Weir wrote in a 1992 op-ed for the New York Times that opposed legislation allowing for the clear-cutting Montana forests (and which was written under the byline “Robert Weir”). “Our ancient forests of the Northern Rockies don’t belong to industrialists. They belong to the children, to the future, to the earth itself.”
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