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

Manuel was one of three talented singers in The Band, along with Helm and Danko. Richard was perhaps the most versatile vocalist in the group, with an extremely emotive voice that he could use to ...

The members of The Band (Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rock Danko, and Richard Manuel) were all characters themselves, and these months in the upstate New York countryside produced ...

“I Shall Be Released” is outstanding evidence of that, with Richard Manuel’s somber piano chords delicately surrounded by Garth Hudson’s organ beds and Levon Helm’s restrained rat-a-ta ...

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.

Hudson was preceded in death by founding member Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and ... on X calling him a “master of the organ, piano, accordion and saxophone.” ...

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 ...