ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
with opener ZACH DJANIKIAN
OUTDOOR SHOW
Gates: 2:30pm
Show: 4:00pm
Tickets (sold as pairs): $75 / $65 / $55
Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. Read our Ticket Policy.
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COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Levon Helm Studios for an upcoming show. Please read carefully through this information for an understanding of the protocols and safety measures that will be in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These are mandates and restrictions that have been supplied by the State of New York and the Town of Woodstock.
Each attendee must be prepared to show proof of one of the following:
COVID-19 vaccine schedule has been fully-completed (2 shots of Pfizer or Moderna, or 1 shot of Johnson & Johnson) at least 14 days, but no more than 180 days (revised from 90 days), prior to the date of the show. Acceptable forms of proof are limited to: CDC-issued COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card OR a digital Excelsior Pass issued via New York State's Excelsior Pass mobile app along with your government issued photo ID
A negative result from a PCR test which has been completed within 3 days (72 hours) prior to the show gates time
A negative result from an antigen test which has been completed within 6 hours of the show gates time
If you are unable to show proof of one of the above, you may purchase a self-administered COVID-19 Antigen Test for $60 which must be administered in your car and negative test results shown to our staff. Click here to purchase a COVID-19 Antigen Test in advance of your arrival.
All tickets have been sold in pairs. Each pair will be assigned a 5’x5’ pod and both ticket holders will be asked to remain in their pod for the duration of the show. Seating will not be provided - you are encouraged to bring your own lawn chairs or a picnic blanket. Your belongings must remain within the boundaries of your pod.
Additionally:
Each attendee MUST fill out this Health Questionnaire prior to your arrival. Please forward this email to everybody in your party so they may complete the questionnaire.
Masks covering your nose and mouth must be warn while on the property at all times EXCEPT while in your designated pod
We will be utilizing a non-contact forehead thermometer to check your body temperature upon your arrival. Please remove any hats or hair that may interfere as you approach the box office. If your temperature is above 100.4°F, we will take it again. If you have two temperature scans above 100.4°F, we will then offer you the option to take an COVID antigen test in your car for the cost of $60
Please maintain a physical distance of 6ft or more from all other attendees, staff, and artists at all times
You may bring food and beverages, however please do not bring any glass bottles or glass containers
The General Store / lobby merchandise area will be open, but capacity will be limited to 6 people at a time
Bottled water will be sold for $2/bottle at the General Store
Purchases (including water) can be made by credit card only (no cash)
Children 10 and under will be admitted for free with paying adults and will be allowed to sit in the pod with their parents/guardians.
Children over the age of 10 must have their own ticket.
Please note that children over the age of 2 will be required to follow all the same COVID-19 safety requirements as the adults, including proof of negative COVID Test (or self-administered test at the gate), social distancing, mask, temperature check and pre-entry health questionnaire.
Thank you for your cooperation with observing theses protocols. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at info@levonhelm.com.
We're looking forward to seeing you at the show!
AMY HELM
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm’s third album, What the Flood Leaves Behind, is her most autobiographical yet, both in content and creation. Due out June 18th via Renew Records/BMG, these 10 songs represent a gathering of ideas and experiences, friends and collaborators. Yet, the album also marks a landing — a pause for the traveling musician and mother of two young boys who was seeking clarity in her calling and career.
After making multiple albums and performing in far-flung places, Helm returned home to Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios just before the pandemic to record What the Flood Leaves Behind and reclaim a sense of self.
“Going back to the place where I learned so much about how to express music, how to hold myself in music, how to listen to music,” she begins, “it was humbling in a funny way. I could see clearly where I came from and where I am now in my life. I was singing from a different place now and for a different reason.”
An impressive group of friends and collaborators joins Helm on What the Flood Leaves Behind. With musical polyglot Josh Kaufman (whose credits range from Taylor Swift’s Folklore to the Grammy-nominated Bonny Light Horseman) producing and contributing on piano, guitar, and mandolin, the record brings Helm’s powerful, emotive vocals to the forefront of the album.
“We tried to make it about her voice and about the musicians responding to her and not the other way around,” explains Kaufman. “I wanted her to feel like she had that freedom to be herself on the recordings and she just filled up the whole room. Her singing was coming from this deeply rooted place of family and music and wanting to convey a beauty.”
In fact, Helm considers Levon Helm Studios itself to be “the tuning fork” for the record — an ethereal, elemental component that helped her and musicians Phil Cook (keys, harmonica), Michael Libramento (bass, organ, percussion), Tony Mason (drums), Daniel Littleton (guitar), Stuart Bogie (saxophone), Jordan McLean (trumpet), and her son Lee Collins (congas) summon courage and comfort.
The songs themselves reflect Helm’s inner strength and personal growth. Some might even sound familiar: “Cotton and the Cain" is a pensive homage to those who raised her, whom she calls, “the village of brilliant and talented people who were also wrestling with the grips of addiction.” A fan favorite that previously took on many styles when performed live, the song is now buoyed by her soaring soprano atop a whirring Wurlitzer. “Are We Running Out of Love,” a freak-folk drone in the hands of Swedish guitarist and songwriter Daniel Norgren, becomes an acoustic, urgent plea. Additionally, the album features collaborations with a number of prominent and prolific songwriters in roots music like Elizabeth Ziman (Elizabeth and The Catapult), Mary Gauthier, Erin Rae, and more.
But it’s “Verse 23,” the song from which the album title is derived, that encapsulates What the Flood Leaves Behind. Written by M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) specifically for Helm, the song opens gently as she beckons, “Turn to Verse 23, read the words on the page.” It’s a Psalm of David that declares, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
From there, the vivid, narrative verses swell, building up to a chorus with deep resonance for Helm. She repeats back the lyrics: What the flood leaves behind is what we've got to make. “I like that reckoning,” she says, “of the good and the bad and everything in between.”
Throughout the record, Helm sings stories of life’s relentlessness. But like she extrapolates from “Verse 23,” the most productive, and often the most healing response, is to create. As a result, What the Flood Leaves Behind serves as a defiant form of self-expression, as Helm steps fully into her own light.