Patti Smith
Buy your ticketsA rock legend and an outstanding poetess
A singer, songwriter and poetess that has become a true popular music legend.
Patti Smith is turning 70 transformed into an authentic popular music icon. And in a perfect shape, as many could check out in the impressive shows that she performed last year in order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the edition of the seminal album “Horses”.
But before becoming a rock star she was a poetess that got inspiration from the beatniks, especially from Allen Ginsberg. In the memory remains an outstanding reading leaded by her at the Palau de la Música, with other poets and activists such as Amiri Baraka or John Giorno, who finished the show with her, singing the emblematic “Power To The People”.
This fan of Rimbaud, who was married to Fred “Sonic” Smith (MC5) and who was a Tom Verlaine and Michael Stipe muse, is still living at New York´s Greenwich Village, and sometimes she leaves it to offer electrifying performances that blend lyrical power with rock catharsis, with a band leaded by her inseparable guitar player Lenny Kaye.
Recommended discography
“Horses” (1975)
“Easter” (1978)
“Banga” (2012)
MARTÍ RUIZ (Village Stage - 20.30h)
The new singer and songwriter from Badalona Martí Ruiz could present during the last Sant Jordi´s day his debut album “Elefants” thanks to crowdfunding. It´s a finely crafted, full of subtle arrangements album with a beautiful ensemble of folk-pop songs with chamber music touches in “Preludi” and rock riffs in “La parábola de Kandinsky” and in a touching “Ella amb mil flors”, a deeply mediterranean song.
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