The THE BAND Band presents

A Tribute to Bob Dylan & The Band
The Basement Tapes 50th Anniversary

Saturday, August 30th of 2025

8pm Showtime; 7pm Doors

Join us for a special tribute to The Band and their mentor and long-time collaborator, Bob Dylan, celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Basement Tapes!

 No artist is more closely associated with Woodstock than Bob Dylan and The Band. In the summer of 1967, they recorded dozens of songs in the basement of Big Pink, including the classics “Tears Of Rage,” “This Wheel’s On Fire,” and “I Shall Be Released.” The recordings were never meant to be publicized, but in June 1975, after 8 years of bootleg albums and endless clamoring by fans and critics, The Basement Tapes was released. 

 The THE BAND Band celebrates the 50th anniversary of this seminal album at The Woodstock Playhouse, the site of the recording of The Band’s 3rd studio album in 1970, Stage Fright. The show will include a selection of songs from The Basement Tapes, Stage Fright, and other choice collaborations between Bob Dylan and The Band.

 ​Length of Performance: Approximately 2 hours

​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.

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. 

Additionally, the Woodstock Playhouse, established in 1938 by a member of one of Woodstock's Oldest Families, became a central hub for the launching of major careers on Broadway and in film and television,