Legendary punk songstress Patti Smith is coming to Budapest to play in a fortnight’s time. The show at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall takes place on 13 October and comes more than two decades after her cathartic performance at the Sziget Festival in 1998.
Tickets are now on sale for Patti Smith, the NYC punk icon just announced as a last-minute addition to the inaugural Liszt Fest International Cultural Festival, which runs from 8 to 24 October.
The 74-year-old singer and poet will play the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall on 13 October.
Already in her thirties when she gained fame with the punk revolution in the mid-1970s, Patti Smith and her group released the classic debut Horses in 1975, its iconic cover by her friend, Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the shape-shifting images of the day. She then enjoyed brief mainstream success in the late 1970s.
Raising a family with MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith through the 1980s,
the songstress reactivated her career in the mid-1990s, and has since worked in
many media, including film, photography and TV.
Her 2012 album Banga received
high critical acclaim, while her early material, particularly Horses and the live
version of My Generation from the same era (‘We created it, let’s take it over’)
remain totemic touchstones.
