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There was a reunion, of sorts, at Woodstock on Thursday.Musicians, friends and fans gathered in the board-and-batten barn where Levon Helm staged his Midnight Ramble concerts to remember the influential singer and drummer for The Band, who died of throat cancer last week at age 71.

Nearly 2,000 people attended his wake not far from where The Band played at the Woodstock gathering in 1969, said a spokesman for the school bus company that shuttled mourners from the village to the wooded grounds of Helms home and studio.Helm’s closed casket, in the second-floor studio of the barn was surrounded by flowers and flanked by his drum kit and a piano.He was so down to earth said Roland Mousaa, a folk musician who performed with Bob Dylan and other artists at Woodstock.

Sporting long gray hair, sequined sunglasses and a tie-dye shirt under a funereal black topcoat Mousaa said,The greatness of Levon Helm was the impact he had on people.Visitors greeted family members and walked down a corridor lined with photos and memorabilia including Helm’s Grammys in a lighted case. Upstairs, they filed silently past the coffin and glimpsed a family photo slideshow before security staff urged them toward the back exit.

He was an icon, but also the guy next door said Al Caron, of Woodstock.The Rambles were like a revival meeting. There was just a sense of euphoria from the minute you arrived at his home and he will be missed.Cleaning, pheromone traps can purge clothes moths