Amsterdam tuba player Herbert S. Breen was married twice. His first wife, Maude Mosher, died in 1927, the year the Mohawk Mills Band was formed. Two years later he married Carrie Wilbur.

When the Hawks officially became the Band in 1967 with their debut LP, Music From Big Pink, Hudson immortalized the Lowery’s church-like pipe-organ tone with “Chest Fever” (sometimes ...

The Band’s songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertson ... A musical polymath whose work room at home included arcana like sheet music for century-old standards and hymns, he played almost ...

It seems unthinkable, that the Band is gone completely. Sure, we will always have the music. Thank God we’ll always have the music. But I’m sad today and I will be sad tomorrow, knowing that ...

Next, on Saturday, Jan. 18, the band is hosting a one-day music and arts festival in Gainesville. "We were inspired to create our own music festival as a way to bring not only the Gainesville ...

During one stop at Toronto’s Massey Hall, Dylan faced derision from folk music lovers in the audience, and one local reviewer criticized Dylan for playing with a “third-rate Yonge Street band.” ...

Keyboardist and saxophonist Garth Hudson, perhaps best known for his powerful, blasting Lowrey organ intro for the classic Band song “Chest Fever,” passed away peacefully in his sleep after a ...

The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock, New York — just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music ...

Keith Urban is one of the biggest stars in country music, but the singer recently made a move that left quite a few of his fans fuming. That move? Well, Urban has cut ties with the band leader ...

Hudson was the last surviving original member of the Band following Robbie Robertson’s death at age 80 in 2023. Across a lifetime of music, Hudson — whose bushy beard, professorial demeanor ...

That home was the inspiration for the title of the Band’s 1968 debut album, Music From Big Pink, which spotlighted Hudson’s churchy organ playing on such earthy anthems as “Tears of Rage ...

I think we kind of forgot that we’re supposed to be artists and give that side of music a bit of space. We’ve been such a touring-heavy band for, I mean, since we left school. And I think you ...