Patti Smith announces virtual performance featuring music and book reading
Patti Smith has announced that she’ll perform a special show next month featuring music and excerpts from her most recent book.The virtual event, which takes place on September 4 at 2am BST, will be filmed at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn, where Smith will read from her 2019 book Year Of The Monkey and play a handful of songs with longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan.The ticketed event, which is being billed as Smith’s only worldwide staged program of 2020, will be filmed by cinematographer Matthew Schroeder, and, according to the show’s description, will “be a high-end multi-camera visual and sonic experience.”Tickets cost $30 and each come with a new paperback copy of Year Of The Monkey.