Patti Smith will celebrate the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking 1975 debut Horses with an international tour featuring nightly performances of the full album. Smith’s touring band will include guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, who both played on the original album, plus keyboardist/bassist Tony Shanahan and guitarist Jackson Smith.
The tour will kick off on October 6th in Dublin, Ireland, with dates across the U.K. and Europe throughout the month. Returning to the U.S., Smith and her band will embark on the domestic leg beginning on November 10th in Seattle. The ten-date coast-to-coast trek will include stops at theaters in Oakland, CA (11/12), San Francisco (11/13), Los Angeles (11/15), Chicago (11/17), two nights at New York’s Beacon Theatre (11/21–11/22), Boston (11/24), Washington, D.C. (11/28), and finally Philadelphia when the tour wraps at The Met on November 29th.
“Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred,” Smith wrote in a press release. These shows will mark her first full performances of Horses in 20 years.
An artist pre-sale for tickets to the Patti Smith Horses anniversary tour will begin Wednesday, February 12th at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 14th at 10 a.m. local time.
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Fifty years later, Horses remains a critical flashpoint of rock music history and a watershed moment for decades of art that followed and generations of musicians to come. The album served as a lynchpin connecting the still vastly underappreciated Velvet Underground to the punk of Ramones and the new wave of Talking Heads to follow. Smith’s raw emotionalism broke down barriers of artistic expression—particularly for women—and her brilliant lyricism elevated the intelligence of the punk ethos. Horses made Smith a monolithic influence for indie artists to follow, including Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Matt Berninger (The National), Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett, Angel Olsen, and Alison Mosshart (The Kills), who will all honor Patti at this year’s The Music Of… benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on March 26th. Tickets to the show are sold out and going for outlandish prices on StubHub.