In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a CaziCon comics convention, Carnaval, Joyfest and Hong ...

That original lineup includes Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson. Manuel died tragically young in 1986, Danko passed in 1999, Robertson passed in 2023, and Hudson ...

Rundgren enjoyed the complexity of keyboardist Garth Hudson’s playing style, as well as the vibes Richard Manuel was putting out. He helped them bring the Americana influences to the forefront o ...

a few hundred fans at small venues like Cheek-to-Cheek Lounge — now a drug store — in Winter Park, Florida. It was there in March of 1986 that pianist and plaintive vocalist Richard Manuel played his ...

One thing that hit me was the accentuation of the piano in the chorus about the ... but also anger too. In Richard Manuel there’s often a weariness and a resignation in his voice.

The Canadian musician rose to fame with Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel in The Band ... “I guess I began to play the piano when I was about five ...

Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Richard ... small clubs and theaters—taking support jobs for the Grateful Dead and Crosby, Stills and Nash in the interim. And then the Band ended again in 1986, after ...

One of my favorite moments is his honky-tonk piano in “Rag Mama Rag,” plunking alongside Rick Danko’s fiddle, Levon Helm’s mandolin, Richard Manuel taking over the drums, Robertson on ...

A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self-educated Greek chorus who spoke through piano, synthesizers, horns and his ...

in 1937, the non-singer spoke through piano, synthesizers ... Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel killed himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999, and drummer Levon Helm ...

The Canadian musician rose to fame with Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel in the group – which put out the songs The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek and The Night They ...

It was only fitting that Hudson began piano lessons at an early age ... into the group =, which included Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, and Rick Danko. Per his deal, he was awarded a new ...