Garth Hudson, keyboardist and last surviving founding member of the Canadian-American rock group The Band, has died. Though cause of death has not been confirmed, the Toronto Star reports he died in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock,
Robertson, the band's guitarist and lead songwriter, died in 2023 after a long illness. Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel killed himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of cancer in 2012. The Band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras.
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Garth Hudson, the last surviving founding member of the beloved roots-rock ensemble The Band, has died. The Canadian musician was 87 years old. His close friend Jan Haust, a music archivist and producer,
Garth Hudson, a keyboardist and saxophonist for legendary rock group The Band, has passed away. He was 87 years old.
The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons.
Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on
Goldberg, a self-effacing musician who specialized in blues-based songwriting and keyboard playing and was a go-to musician for many rock and pop greats, died Wednesday at 83 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. His death was announced by his friend and publicist, Bob Merlis.
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Blues musician Barry Goldberg has died at 83. The legendary keyboardist and Grammy-nominated producer passed away in hospice care on Wednesday January 22 after battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma for a decade.