Willie Nelson & Family

With Special Guest The Levon Helm Band

July 28, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall

About the Show

American legend and artist, Willie Nelson & Family returns to Radio City Music Hall on July 28. He will be joined by special guest The Levon Helm Band.

Willie Nelson is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. Since bursting onto the country music landscape in the 1960s, Nelson remains an icon in American popular culture today. He continues to tour and has performed in concerts and fundraisers with other major musicians, and record albums prolifically in new genres that embrace reggae, blues, jazz, folk, and popular music. Nelson's 2010 U.S. tour kicked off last month to support the release of his new album, Country Music.

Levon Helm, legendary American rock musician and drummer (and often vocalist) for The Band will be Willie Nelson & Family's special guest for the evening.

Helm is known for his deeply soulful, country-style voice, and powerful drumming style highlighted on many of the The Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". His 2007 solo album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award® for "Best Traditional Folk Album" in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.