Part of the musical legacy that the late Levon Helm left behind will perform tonight at the Clayton Opera House, 405 Riverside Drive.

Helm, who died in April at age 71 after a long battle with cancer, was part of one of the most revered ensembles in rock history, the Band.

In the ’90s, his gutsy tenor voice was reduced to a croak because of throat cancer, but he re-emerged in the last decade as a revered elder statesman of American roots music. In 2007, he released the album “Dirt Farmer.” It won the 2008 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. Mr. Helm appeared at moe.down in Turin the same year.

The Dirt Farmer Band, based in Woodstock, home of Levon Helm Studios, performs at 7:30 tonight. The band consists of Mr. Helm’s daughter, Amy Helm (vocals, mandolin), former Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell (vocals, mandolin, fiddle, guitar), Teresa Williams (vocals, guitar), Justin Guip (drums) and Byron Isaacs (vocals, bass).

General admission tickets are $30 and reserved seats are $35.

Thousands of readers like you have made Northern New York Newspapers the number one ranked website* for local news and sports coverage in the north country.

You can continue on to this article in a few seconds, or you can visit one of our websites:

• Watertown Daily Times
• The Ogdensburg Journal
• Daily Courier-Observer