Bruce Springsteen joins the show for Patti Smith “People Have The Power”, with Michael Stipe, Kim Gordon, Angel Olsen, Ben Harper and many others

There will also be Bruce Springsteen on March 26, 2025 at the Carnegie Hall in New York for “People Have The Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith”, the special event dedicated to the legendary American singer -songwriter. In the cast of the show, artists of the caliber of Michael Stipe (Rem), Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Matt Berninger (The National), Karen or (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Ben Harper, Courtney Barnett and Alison Mosshart (The Kills), as well as Kronos Quartet and others to others to others Surprise guests. To accompany them, one House Band Exceptional, made up of Tony Shanhan and Lenny Kaye, historical members of the Smith band, together with Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Steve Jordan (Rolling Stones).
The concert is part of the beneficial series “Music of”, conceived by Michael Dorf, founder and CEO of City Winery. The net proceeds will be intended for musical education programs for young people in difficulty. Tickets are already sold out.
The heart of the evening will be “Horses”, the revolutionary album of Patti Smith who this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, but the lineup will also include other songs of its repertoire and performance Spoken Word. The “Music of” series has already paid tribute to legends such as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin and Talking Heads in the past.

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Patti Smith will also perform soon in Italy. In addition to the date of Friday 10 October at the Choruslife Arena in Bergamo, already sold-out for some time, the Rock priestess will perform in fact in Piazza San Marco in Venice. It will happen on July 7 for the beauty festival. “On a single stage in the world, another great artist will pay homage to the beauty of our city – said the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro – Venice Metropolitan is preparing to pass a summer in the name of music and cultural events that will give many emotions”.
After the Venice concert, the 78 -year -old American artist will return to Italy for the Bergamo appointment, included in the tour that celebrates his debut album, “Horses”, who turns 50 this year. “Horses” will be performed in full on stage by Patti Smith, supported by Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, two members of the original group, together with the keyboardist and bassist Tony Shanahan and guitarist Jackson Smith, son of Patti.

Patti Smith celebrates 50 years of his debut album, the legendary “Horses”, with a series of special concerts all over the world. The “Horses 50th Anniversary” tour will also touch Italy for a single date, on 10 October 2025 in Bergamo, Choruslife Arena. A unique concert in which the entire 1975 album will be performed in its entirety, with the presence of Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, two members of the original group, together with the keyboardist and bassist Tony Shanahan, a thirty years of Patti Smith, and guitarist Jackson Smith, son of Patti for thirty years of Patti Smith. The concerts-event will stop in eight European cities (Dublin, Madrid, Bergamo, London, Brussels, Oslo and Paris) and nine cities in the United States (Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington DC and Philadelphia).

In the autumn of 1975, Patti Smith gathered his band at the Electric Lady Studios in New York to record his debut album, “Horses”. Published on 10 November by Arista Records, it has become an crucial work and an essential point of reference, still maintaining an extraordinary relevance for generations of musicians and artists. Horses' sound manifesto was clear: “The three -melted rock rocks with the power of the word”. Poetess and visual artist, Patti had started two years earlier to improvise his unmistakable mix of vision songs and images, performing on the stages of cabaret and in the small clubs, flanked by guitarist Lenny Kaye and pianist Richard Sohl. Its performance live they allowed her to refine the songs, conquering an ever wider audience in theunderground of Manhattan. When, in the winter of 1975, a seven -week residency began at the CBGB, his band had expanded with guitarist Ivan Kral and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. Precisely at that time, Patti signed a contract with Clive Davis, president of the Arista Records. John Cale, ex-Welvet Underground, was chosen, as producer of the album that was released on November 10, a symbolic date: the anniversary of the death of one of Patti's major artistic references, the poet Arthur Rimbaud.
“Horses” is the least electric record of his works of the 70s, but also the most convulsive, energetic, original and punk. The further forward by attitude, even if the chronologically older one. It is the album that brings a new musical language to the history of rock: a sort of mix between “free form” acting and music, in which the text becomes the starting point, but never a limit; Indeed, it is often the vehicle that allows songs to expand and expand constantly.
The iconic photography of Robert Mapplethorpe on the cover of the album, which portrays pacts with the jacket thrown on the shoulder, perfectly captured that moment of transformation. “Horses” marked the beginning of a long musical career that still resonates today with greater intensity. Over the years the album has received numerous awards, including the Charles Cros Award, and has been included in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.
Since then, Patti has released nine other albums, won the National Book Award with Just Kids, tackled world tours and obtained entry into the rock and roll hall of Fame.
Recently, Patti Smith has published “A Book of Days”, a photographic book that tells fragments of his daily life and his artistic path.