David Hardy Lemieux (born November 8, 1970) is an audio and film archivist. He is a Grammy, Juno, and Gemini Award voting member. He is the audiovisual archivist and legacy manager for the Grateful Dead.

Education and Early Work

Lemieux is originally from

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, Canada, and was educated at Carleton University in Ottawa (BA in history), Concordia University in Montreal (BFA in film studies) and the

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in Norwich, UK (MA in film archiving). Upon completion of his MA at the University if East Anglia, Lemieux worked at the National Archives of Canada (in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec) and the Royal British Columbia Museum Archives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Grateful Dead

He has been working as the

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, Folk music, folk, country music, country, bluegrass music, bluegrass, roc ...

's audiovisual archivist and CD/DVD producer since September 1999. He was put in charge of the Grateful Dead's vault after the August 1999 passing of original Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala. Lemieux has produced scores of Grateful Dead CD and DVD releases since 2000, including 50 of the Dead's record-setting 64 Billboard Top 40 albums. The '' Dave's Picks'' series is titled after Lemieux.Eisen, Benjy (October 24, 2011). Lemieux has produced seven Grammy-nominated boxed sets, including one Grammy-winning boxed set, Madison Square Garden 1981-1982-1983
"Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux Announces New Live Series"
''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved January 28, 2014. He has also produced several CD releases by Jerry Garcia. Lemieux hosts a daily radio show on The Grateful Dead Channel on SiriusXM Satellite Radio (Channel 23)/ Dish Network (Channel 6023), ''Today in Grateful Dead History'', in which he selects a segment of music from that day in the Grateful Dead's history and explains its historical context and other information relating to the selection. He has hosted and produced more than 6,400 shows since its debut in September 2007.

Personal

When Lemieux turned 51 in 2021, he began running, which he had never done before in any capacity. In his first three years of competitive running from May 2022 to May 2025, Lemieux completed seven marathons (including two World Major Marathons, the New York City Marathon in 2024 and the London Marathon in 2025), 16 half marathons, and several 10K races. Lemieux is fluent in French. He is vegan.

References

* Selvin, Joel
"Every Single Note of Dead's Famous 4-night Run is Finally Out in a CD Set; Good Luck Finding It"
'' San Francisco Chronicle'', November 8, 2005 *Schiesel, Seth
"Jerry Garcia: The Man, the Myth, the Area Rug"
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"Grateful Dead Profits are Far from Moribund"
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'', August 27, 2000 *Gatta, John Patrick
"Truckin' Up To Buffalo (Part One of an Interview with Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux)
Jambands.com, July 9, 2005 *Gatta, John Patrick
"The Houseboat Tapes, the Fillmore Box and Listening Forward (Part Two of an Interview with Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux)"
Jambands.com, August 9, 2005 *Levy, Eric

''The Music Box'', February 2002 *Levy, Eric

''The Music Box'', March 2002 *Levy, Eric

''The Music Box'', May 2002 *Elkin, Sam
"Opening the Dead's Vault: David Lemieux"
JamBase, December 16, 2004 *"Ground Zero: Inside the Grateful Dead Vault", '' Relix'', April 2001 *Bowman, Samantha
"Sirius' Grateful Dead Channel to Celebrate its One Year Anniversary"

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