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After a multi-night engagement in her home turf of New York earlier this month, Patti Smith will head out on June 3rd for a sixteen-date tour of the U.S.
Smith and her band of ten years -- guitarists Lenny Kaye and Oliver Ray, bassist Tony Shanahan and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty -- kick things off in Northampton, Massachusetts, with the tour wrapping up at the end of June in Detroit. A month-long tour of Europe begins on July 1st.
"This band has given me more confidence than I ever had before," Smith says. "I know that I have more experience now, but it's not just that. There is something about the way we all work together."
Smith is plugging her new album Trampin', her fourth in eight years, a period of productivity that speaks to her reinvigorated approach to making music. "In 1979, when I was thirty or so, I felt I had no more to contribute," Smith says. "So I didn't, and that was the right decision. Now, when I pick up my electric guitar and plug in, I don't feel any different than I did some decades ago. Rock & roll belongs to the young. But for some reason, I am continuously recruited to contribute [laughs]. Bob Dylan is a man of few words, and we didn't talk a lot when I toured with him. But he did counsel me -- beseech me in a friendly way -- to come back and do my work, sing for the people. It was worthy counsel."
Patti Smith tour dates:
6/3: Northampton, MA, Pearl Street
6/4: Boston, Paradise Rock Club
6/5: New Haven, CT, Toad's Place
6/6: Asbury Park, NJ, Stone Pony
6/9: Pittsburgh, Point State Park
6/11: Manchester, TN, Bonnaroo Music Festival
6/12: Atlanta, Variety Playhouse
6/15: New Orleans, House of Blues
6/16: Houston, Meridian
6/18: Austin, La Zona Rosa
6/19: Dallas, Gypsy Tea Room
6/20: St. Louis, The Pageant
6/22: Minneapolis, First Avenue
6/23: Madison, WI, Barrymore Theater
6/24: Chicago, Skyline Stage
6/25: Detroit, Majestic Theater