Patti Smith in Wynwood (Miami Art fairs day one – evening edition)

I had the amazing privilege of being invited to an event I’ll remember for the rest of my life tonight.

That’s a pretty powerful sentence, and I mean every word of it. Earlier today I was at the Robert Miller Gallery looking at the artworks on display at ABMB and was lucky enough to be invited to a performance by Patti Smith to an audience of less than one hundred.

If you’ve read my blog for awhile you might remember that about a year ago I was fortunate enough to have lunch with Ms. Smith when she was in Washington DC promoting the movie “Dream of Life”. In that post I pretty much gushed about my fanboy attitude when it comes to both her music and poetry. So I’ll skip that part – but I think you can follow along with that quick description.

I was thrilled to hear her read one of my favorite poems Dylans Dog which was performed in a dylanesque twang as well as a great reading of babeloge (in my mind one of the highlights from her album “Easter”. She finished the evening with an acapela version of Because the Night that ended in the crowd singing the chorus.

I think these audio files might be of interest to a few people – they are excerpts (almost complete, but excerpts), but very listenable.

Patti Smith – Babelogue (excerpt)
http://flash-mp3-player.net/medias/player_mp3_mini.swf

Patti Smith – Because the Night (excerpt)
http://flash-mp3-player.net/medias/player_mp3_mini.swf