Even if his death is the end of the Band, their fellowship lives on in the music they made, as vibrantly as ever, with Garth Hudson holding it all together, as he always did.
The group became part of the Juno Awards’ Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989. He was born Eric Garth Hudson in Windsor, Ontario, on Aug. 2, 1937, and grew up in the northeastern city of London.
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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 ...
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