He is best known for And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda and No Man’s Land, and his songs have been covered by a vast array of artists, from Joan Baez to Slim Dusty. Bogle will perform two ...

The band occasionally ventured south to Chicago and Detroit, and even traveled west during one tour to play the famed jazz club the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. “We’d played a couple of months ...

He was playing accordion in a country band at age 12; his parents sent him to the Toronto Conservatory, where he learned to play Bach preludes; at an uncle’s funeral parlor, he played Anglican ...

Hudson played keyboard for The Band, the influential rock group that formed in 1957 and was originally called the Hawks. The band famously performed with Bob Dylan and in 1968 released its debut ...

But critics and his fellow band members agreed that Mr. Hudson played an essential role in raising the group to another level entirely. Mr. Robertson, quoted in Barney Hoskyns’s 1993 book ...

The band played an incredible 139 concerts in that year — traveling on commercial flights, in cars, vans, buses, trains and worse — and recorded their blockbuster second album between tour ...

He played in local bands before hooking up in the late 1950s with rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ The Hawks, which eventually would feature many of his Band mates. The group would back Bob ...

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist who was the last surviving member of the Band, has died ... his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone ...

With no album planned, they wrote and played spontaneously in an old pink house outside of town shared by Hudson, Danko and Manuel. Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band ...

He even had an MTV moment in the Eighties — he played with the New Wave guitar band the Call, on their odd 1983 hit “The Walls Came Down.” No mugging for the camera — he just sits at his ...

“Garth was different,” Hawkins told Barney Hoskyns in “Across the Great Divide,” his 1993 book about the Band. “He heard all sorts of weird sounds in his head, and he played like the ...