About Stage Fright - The Concert

The THE BAND Band presents

STAGE FRIGHT - THE CONCERT

Saturday, August 31 2024

8:00 pm Showtime

“Stage Fright – The Concert” returns to The Woodstock Playhouse on Saturday, August 31st, with The THE BAND Band, a tribute to The Band.

The Band is inextricably linked to Woodstock, from a little pink house outside of town to a certain festival bearing its name. In August 1970, they released their third album, Stage Fright, recorded right here on the site of the original Woodstock Playhouse. Now, The THE BAND Band performs the album in its entirety, including the songs “The Shape I’m In,” “W.S. Walcott Medicine Show," and “Stage Fright,” and other classic songs from The Band's extraordinary repertoire. They will be accompanied by the TTBB Horns and Larry Packer on fiddler, who performed with The Band at The Last Waltz in 1976.

The THE BAND Band is the only nationally touring band dedicated exclusively to the accurate reproduction of The Band's music. Gary Solomon, bassist and co-founder of The THE BAND Band, has a personal connection with Stage Fright. "It was my first album. I got it for my 13th birthday when it came out, and I’ve been a huge fan of The Band ever since.” A few years later, a 19-year-old Solomon found himself in the audience at The Last Waltz at San Francisco’s Winterland Arena on Thanksgiving Day in 1976, what he still refers to as “the most incredible musical happening I have ever experienced.”

Solomon adds that he got the idea to present a live performance of Stage Fright for the 50th anniversary of its release in 2020. “Back in 1970, The Band wanted to record it as a live concert, but after The Woodstock festival the previous year, the town turned them down. So this is the concert they might have played.” Back at the Playhouse for the 4th year in a row, it’s fast becoming a summer tradition.

Come on out and catch the show!

Length of Performance: Approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes

TICKET PRICING:
•$55 for Golden Tier Seating, Rows A - F
•$45 for Blue Tier Seating, Rows G - N
•$35 for Green Tier Seating, Rows P - Q

Each ticket price is inclusive of a $5 handling & convenience charge

All seating is Reserved Seating, and all sales are final; no refunds nor exchanges.

About Woodstock Playhouse

Richie Havens on stage at the Woodstock Playhouse; 1968 in Jocko Moffitt's Last Big Sound-Out

During the late 1950s and into the 60s, the Woodstock Playhouse directors instituted Saturday morning children's productions & concerts as well as midnight concerts featuring such artists as Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Tim Hardin, Pete Seeger, Happy and Artie Traum, Billy Faire, and Jack Elliot. The Band, including Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Jaime Robbie Robertson, would record their album Stage Fright at the Woodstock Playhouse with Todd Rundgren serving as sound engineer. As the 1960s evolved and Woodstock found itself at the center of a cultural revolution, the Playhouse was host to the final concert in a series of performances known as the Sound-Outs in 1968. Produced by John “Jocko” Moffitt and generally perceived as a precursor concert to the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel a year later, the Playhouse concert featured Richie Havens, with additional performances by Jerry Moore, Don Preston, Major Wiley and Bunky and Jake.

Throughout the 60s and 70s, legendary musicians and bands played at the Woodstock Playhouse, including Arlo Guthrie, Van Morrison, Orleans, Full Moon, Sonia Malkine, John Hammond, Holy Moses, Dave Van Ronk, Levon and The Band, The Montgomeries, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Jim Rooney and Bill Keith, and after the burning and rebuilding of the Woodstock Playhouse: Leon Russell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jacke DeJohnette, Sonny Rollins, Peter Yarrow, Bethany and Rufus Cappadocia, John Sebastian, Natalie Merchant, Larry Campbell, David Bromberg, Richie Havens, Noel Paul Stookey, The Indigo Girls, Leon Russell, Well Strung, all of the amazing Headliners at the annual String Sampler Concert, and so many more.