The music in heaven just got a whole lot sweeter now that Honey Boy is home,” Old Dutch Church Church Pastor Robert Sweeney said at Garth Hudson’s funeral on

A multifaceted musician, he was the last surviving original member of an influential group that mixed rock, r&b and an Americana sound.

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist and last surviving member of The Band, has died. He was 87. Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” on Tuesday morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York, his estate executor confirmed to the Toronto Star.

The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons.

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band, has died, aged 87. His death was confirmed by the Toronto Star, who report that Hudson passed away peacefully in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, N.Y.

Hudson's keyboard was an essential element of the Band's sound on roots-rock classics such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.'

The group's official Instagram page dubbed Hudson "a musical genius and cornerstone of the group’s timeless sound."

Garth Hudson, the Band‘s genius multi-instrumentalist and careful ... a rockabilly-influenced predecessor to the Band. They later toured with Levon Helm as Levon and the Hawks. Hudson then joined bandmates Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel ...

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and '70s rock group the Band including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and "Ophelia,

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Weight” and “Rag Mama Rag,

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist ... bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of cancer in 2012. The Band was inducted into the ...

Bob Dylan, for whom The Band had provided support for his infamous shift to electric music in the mid-1960s, was on hand. So were Eric Clapton and Joni Mitchell. Van Morrison and Ringo Starr. A pair of Neils – Young and Diamond.