IN THE NEWS:
This year's Life is Good Festival has enlisted performers Ray LaMontagne, The Avett Brothers, Michael Franti and Spearhead and The Levon Helm Band to help raise money for kids facing life-threatening challenges.
Levon Helm, best known as the former drummer for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, is back at home after a nearly week-long stay in a New York hospital.
Levon Helm, Grammy-winning former drummer for The Band, was hospitalized in New York this weekend as a cold complicated by other health issues forced him to miss a house concert at his own studio in Woodstock, NY.
Amos Lee will perform at a benefit concert for Musicians On Call with Lady Antebellum before heading out on a short tour preceding the release of "Mission Bell," his upcoming fourth album for Blue Note.
The gradual return of Levon Helm to singing and performing since undergoing throat cancer surgery in 1998 had a tremendous payoff Sunday night (8/15) at the Greek Theater, where the Band's drummer and Southern spirit responded to an admiring crowd with a dazzling two-hour concert. 
