Woodstock Redux.

LEVON HELM: A Celebration Through the Streets of Woodstock

We have learned exclusively that a public viewing and memorial service will be held for Levon Helm Thursday in his hometown of Woodstock, New York. This will be followed on Friday by a New Orleans-style funeral procession through the town and burial in the Woodstock Cemetery next to Rick Danko, the singer and bassist in The Band who died in 1999 from heart failure. Levon was born in Arkansas, but had lived primarily in Woodstock since relocating there in the late '60s with The Band. He staged his Midnight Ramble shows at his home studio there on most Saturday nights.

Levon died from cancer last Thursday afternoon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 71 and leaves behind his wife Sandy and daughter Amy from his first marriage to Libby Titus. Libby is now married to Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.

Levon is the third member of The Band to pass away following Richard Manuel, who hanged himself in 1986 in Florida while on tour with The Band, and Rick Danko in 1999. The two surviving members are Garth Hudson, who also lives in Woodstock, and Robbie Robertson, who resides in Los Angeles.