Wild horses couldn’t drag us away from this one.
Patti Smith simply introduced she’s embarking on a ‘Horses 50th Anniversary Tour’ to have fun her seminal 1975 debut album with the identical title.
Towards the tip of the worldwide run, the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee is slated to make a pair of stops at New York’s Beacon Theatre on Friday, Nov. 21 and Saturday, Nov. 22.
In any respect exhibits, the Punk Poet Laureaute will carry out the eight-track “Horses” — which incorporates “Gloria,” “Redondo Beach,” “Free Money” amongst different classics — in full for the primary time since 2005 together with guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, each of whom performed on the now 50-year-old document that she describes as a “three-chord rock merged with the power of the word.”
“Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred,” the New Jersey native and ’70s New York icon shared in a press launch.
As for whether or not Smith nonetheless has “it,” critics appear to suppose so.
“She’s still passionate, still fiery, still a dynamite live performer,” Park Life DC wrote a few September 2023 Washington, D.C. live performance of Smith’s. “She’s all heart, and sometimes she stumbled with a lyric before catching herself, but it’s all part of being so deeply emotionally engaged with her material. If you haven’t seen Patti do her thing, you should make a point of it, because you’re guaranteed to get a great show.”
Previous to the outing, REM’s Michael Stipe, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, The Nationwide’s Matt Berninger and extra are headlining a Patti Smith tribute live performance at New York Metropolis’s Carnegie Corridor on Wednesday, March 26.
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Patti Smith tour schedule 2025
A whole calendar together with all North American tour dates, venues and hyperlinks to purchase tickets could be discovered beneath.
| Patti Smith tour dates |
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| Nov. 10 at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA |
| Nov. 12 at The Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA |
| Nov. 13 at The Majestic in San Francisco, CA |
| Nov. 15 on the Walt Disney Live performance Corridor in Los Angeles, CA |
| Nov. 17 at The Chicago Theatre in Chicago, IL |
| Nov. 21 at The Beacon Theatre in New York, NY |
| Nov. 22 at The Beacon Theatre in New York, NY |
| Nov. 24 at The Orpheum Theatre in Boston, MA |
| Nov. 28 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. |
| Nov. 29 at The Met in Philadelphia, PA |
Patti Smith Carnegie Corridor tribute present
For these hoping to catch the Carnegie Corridor tribute present and are curious who the “and more” artists are, we’re right here for you.
Based on Carnegie Corridor, that is the whole lineup of performers for the one-of-a-kind present:
Michael Stipe
Matt Berninger
Courtney Barnett
Sharon Van Etten
Alison Mosshart
Kronos Quartet
Ben Harper
Karen O
Kim Gordon
Angel Olsen
Home band led by Tony Shanahan with Flea, Steve Jordan, and extra
Extra artists to be introduced
“Horses” observe checklist
When you haven’t trotted “Horses” out in a couple of years, listed below are all of the songs on the document as a refresher:
01.) “Gloria”
02.) “Redondo Beach”
03.) “Birdland”
04.) “Free Money”
05.) “Kimberly”
06.) “Break It Up”
07.) “Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer(de)”
08.) “Elegie”
Later editions characteristic a stay cowl of The Who’s “My Generation.”
You could find the beloved 43-minute album right here.
Patti Smith band
Kaye and drummer Daugherty aren’t the one band members backing Smith on the street this November.
Guitarist Jackson Smith in addition to keyboardist and bass participant Tony Shanahan — who has been performing stay with Smith’s band since 1996 — will even be a part of her.
The final time Smith carried out “Horses” stay in full was on the 2005 Meltdown Pageant in London the place she celebrated the document’s thirtieth anniversary.
Traditional rockers on tour in 2025
Though no act is sort of like Smith — she’s punk, she’s poetry, she’s rock and roll, she’s ferocious, she’s avant-garde, she’s 1,000,000 issues — listed below are 5 artists with considerably related sensibilities on the street this 12 months.
• Coronary heart (with Low-cost Trick)
• Joan Jett and The Blackhearts (with Billy Idol)
• Devo
• Elvis Costello
• AC/DC
Who else is out and about? Check out our checklist of all the largest traditional rockers on tour in 2025 to seek out the present for you.
This text was written by Matt Levy, New York Publish stay occasions reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the most recent tour bulletins out of your favourite musical artists and comedians, in addition to Broadway openings, sporting occasions and extra stay exhibits – and finds nice ticket costs on-line. Since he began his tenure on the Publish in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen live performance and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to call a couple of. Please observe that offers can expire, and all costs are topic to alter
