On September 10, 1976, Orleans — the harmony-drenched rock band that formed right up the road in Woodstock — played the PER Ice Arena on the SUNY Cortland campus at the absolute peak of their career. “Still the One” had just climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 that summer, an Upstate-born band scoring one of the biggest singles of the year. It’s the kind of full-circle moment that made this show matter: a New York group coming home to New York fans, riding the song that would outlive the band itself as a pop-culture fixture.
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