the patti smith setlists

1 January 2009, 35th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading, The Poetry Project, St Mark’s Church, New York, NY, USA
Wander I Go

Note: Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye.

9 January 2009, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, USA
Beneath the Southern Cross

Note: A gathering of poets and musicians on the 94th birthday of Herbert Huncke. Incomplete setlist.

10 January 2009, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY, USA
Grateful

Note: Patti Smith and Steven Sebring attended a Q&A after the 7:30 pm showing of Dream of Life and introduced the 10:00 pm showing.

11 January 2009, New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend, The Times Center, New York, NY, USA
"Punk Rock ’n’ Poetry"
My Blakean Year, Grateful

30 January 2009, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, USA
My Blakean Year, People Have the Power (spoken)

Note: Patti Smith and Steven Sebring in conversation with Jim DeRogatis after a screening of Patti Smith: Dream of Life.

3 February 2009, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA
"19th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert"
Two poems^*, Chantilly Lace (The Big Bopper)^**, Words of Love (Buddy Holly)^**, Come On, Let’s Go (Ritchie Valens)^**, Not Fade Away^**, Reach Out (I’ll Be There)^**, People Have the Power⁺

Note: ^* Patti Smith and Jesse Smith. ^** Patti Smith and Her Band. ⁺ All artists finale.

14 February 2009, Campbell Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
People Have the Power (spoken), Wichita Vortex Sutra, The Blue Thangka, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, My Blakean Year, Helpless, Because the Night, On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa Vidyadhara, Magic Psalm, (encore): Spell

Note: Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty.

23 February 2009, La Feltrinelli Libri e Musica, Milan, Italy
Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, People Have the Power (spoken), Because the Night (acapella)

11 March 2009, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA
"The Music of REM""
New Test Leper, E-bow the Letter

Note: Music Education Programs for Underprivileged Youth Benefit Concert

24 March 2009, Costa Concordia, somewhere in the Mediterranean
Seneca (new song), My Blakean Year, Because the Night

Note: Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye. A private recital filmed for Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme.

2 April 2009, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

Note: Patti Smith performed songs and poetry inspired by Arthur Rimbaud in conjunction with her exhibition "Veil".

5 April 2009, City Winery, New York, NY, USA
"Philip Glass with Patti Smith: Footnote to Howl, The Poet Speaks, Homage to Allen Ginsberg"
On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa Vidyadhara, Magic Psalm, Footnote to Howl, Poem for Allen Ginsberg, Grateful, Palm Sunday (Jerry Garcia Band)

Note: Patti Smith accompanied by Philip Glass and Jesse Smith. Incomplete setlist.

24 May 2009, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, Italy
No setlist

Note: Poetry reading for LILA (Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l’Aids).

10 June 2009, Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
No setlist

Note: Private function for opening of photographic exhibition

11 June 2009, Farringford House, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Move Eastward Happy Earth (Tennyson), Amelia Earheart, Georgia O’Keefe, Grateful, Land (version), 16 February, Preface to In Memoriam (Tennyson), Beneath the Southern Cross, Birds of Iraq, People Have the Power (spoken), The Poet’s Song (Tennyson), The Writer’s Song, Wing, She Lay in the Stream Dreaming of August Sander, Break Break Break (Tennyson), Y, Marigold, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, (encore): Because the Night (acapella)

18 June 2009, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom
Piss Factory, Wander I Go^*, The Blue Doll^*, Wing^*‡, Eve of All Saints^‡, Babelfield⁺, Hlalia^$ (Bachir Attar), Wild Leaves^**, Wilderness^**, Nine^**, People Have the Power (version)^**, Our Jargon Muffles the Drum^**, Improvisation/My Blakean Year^**, (encore): Pissing in a River^{^}, Ghost Dance^{^}

Note: Patti Smith with ^*Adrian Utley & Shiraz, ^‡Jesse Smith, ⁺Flea, ^$Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Joujouka, ^**The Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, ^{^}finale with all artists.

19 June 2009, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom
"Reflections of The Shape Of Jazz To Come"
Improvisation

Note: Patti Smith with Ornette Coleman.

30 June 2009, Les Nuits de Fourvière, Odéon, Lyon, France
"Hommage à Allen Ginsberg, Footnote to Howl - The Poet Speaks"
No setlist

Note: Patti Smith, Philip Glass and Lenny Kaye

1 July 2009, Arezzo Art Festival, Piazza Libertà, Arezzo, Italy
Beneath the Southern Cross, Wander I Go, Grateful, Birdland, My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Kimberly, Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, Ghost Dance, People Have the Power, Because the Night, Helpless, Gloria

Note: Patti Smith with Jesse Smith, Lenny Kaye and Mike Campbell.

3 July 2009, Le Conversazioni, Piazzetta Tragara, Capri, Italy
"Seven Deadly Sins: Lust"

Bathsheba, Grateful, Wing^*, Because the Night^*

Note: Patti Smith with ^* Lenny Kaye. During the soundcheck Patti performed Marigold.

4 July 2009, Primitivo Festival: La Provincia dei Suoni, Piazzetta Indipendenza, Alberobello, Italy
Beneath the Southern Cross, Radio Baghdad, Grateful, Birdland, My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Happy Birthday, People Have the Power, Pissing in a River, (encore): Wing, Gloria

Note: Patti Smith with Jesse Smith, Lenny Kaye and Mike Campbell.

6 July 2009, Villa Ada Festival, Roma Incontra il Mundo, Laghetto di Villa Ada, Rome, Italy
Beneath the Southern Cross, Improvisation / Wander I Go, Grateful, Birdland, My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Kimberly, Ghost Dance, Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, People Have the Power, Because the Night, (encore): Wing, Gloria

Patti Smith with Jesse Smith, Lenny Kaye and Mike Campbell.

7 July 2009, Sotto il Cielo di Parma, Piazzale della Pilotta, Parma, Italy
Beneath the Southern Cross, Improvisation / Wander I Go, Grateful, Birdland, My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Kimberly, Ghost Dance, Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, People Have the Power, Because the Night, (encore): Wing, Gloria

Patti Smith with Jesse Smith, Lenny Kaye and Mike Campbell.

8 July 2009, Piazza Matteotti, Sogliano al Rubicone, Italy
Beneath the Southern Cross, Improvisation/Wander I Go, Grateful, Birdland, My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Kimberly, Ghost Dance, Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, People Have the Power, Because the Night, (encore): Wing, Gloria

Note: Patti Smith with Jesse Smith and Lenny Kaye.

10 July 2009, OFF-Fest 2009, Skopje, Macedonia
Redondo Beach, My Blakean Year, Free Money, Are You Experienced?, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Gloria, People Have the Power

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

11 July 2009, EXIT Festival, Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad, Serbia
Dancing Barefoot, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Because the Night, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band. Incomplete setlist.

12 July 2009, Press Conference, Hotel Esplanade, Zagreb, Croatia
My Blakean Year, People Have the Power (spoken), Grateful^*

Note: Patti Smith & ^* Lenny Kaye

13 July 2009, Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb, Croatia
"Wings, Wings" (Tin Ujevic), Wild Leaves, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Free Money, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Ain’t it Strange, Pissing in a River, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom, People Have the Power, Gloria, (encore): Smells Like Teen Spirit, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band. The poem by Tin Ujevic was read in memory of Darko Glavan.

14 July 2009, Kasematten, Graz, Austria
Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Beneath the Southern Cross, Ghost Dance, Paint it Black (aborted), Paint it Black, Ain’t it Strange, We Three, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have the Power (spoken), People Have the Power, Gloria, (encore): Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

15 July 2009, Divadlo Archa, Prague, Czech Republic
Redondo Beach, Paint it Black, Birdland, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Ain’t it Strange, Pissing in a River, Dancing Barefoot, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have the Power (spoken) Because the Night, Land/Gloria, (encore): People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

17 July 2009, Pohoda Festival, Letisko Trencín, Trencin, Slovakia
Gloria, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

18 July 2009, Alter Schlachthof, Wels, Austria
Redondo Beach, My Blakean Year, Are You Experienced?, Free Money, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Dancing Barefoot, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have The Power (spoken), Because the Nigh, People Have the Power, Land/Gloria, (encore): Wing, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

20 July 2009, Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Free Money, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Beneath the Southern Cross, Ghost Dance, Ain’t It Strange, Dancing Barefoot, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have the Power (spoken), Radio Ethiopia, People Have the Power, Because the Night, Gloria, (encore): We Three, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

24 July 2009, Fuji Rock Festival ’09, Naeba, Japan
Dancing Barefoot, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have the Power (spoken), People Have the Power, Land/Gloria, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

26 July 2009, Jisan Valley Rock Festival, Jisan Forest Resort, South Korea
Redondo Beach, Paint It Black, Birdland, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Ain’t It Strange, Pissing in a River, Dancing Barefoot, Peaceable Kingdom, Because the Night, Land/Gloria, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

2 August 2009, Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, CA, USA
Grateful, My Blakean Year

Note: Patti Smith appeared at the PBS portion of the 2009 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour.

15 August 2009, Mollie Parnis Auditorium, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, Westhampton Beach, NY, USA
Piss Factory, Vecchia Zimarra (Puccini), Beneath the Southern Cross, Grateful, Birdland, Love Me, My Blakean Year, White Rabbit, Redondo Beach, Pissing in a River, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom, Dancing Barefoot, People Have the Power^*, Land/Gloria, My Generation^*

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band. Special guests Jesse Smith and *Mike Campbell.

3 September 2009, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Redondo Beach, Kimberly, Frederick, Free Money, Ghost Dance, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, So You Want to Be (A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star), Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, Happy Birthday, You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) (Russ Columbo), Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom, People Have the Power, Gloria, (encore): Be My Baby, Not Fade Away

Note:Incomplete setlist. Patti Smith and Her Band. Special guests Flea and Andy Paley.

8 September 2009, Florence, Italy
Grateful, My Blakean Year, My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross

Note: Patti Smith spent the morning busking outside various landmarks in Florence.

9 September 2009, New York University, Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy
My Blakean Year, Dancing Barefoot^*, People Have the Power^*

Note: Patti Smith and ^* Lenny Kaye

9 September 2009, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
People Have the Power (spoken), Grateful, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross^*, Helpless^*, Ghost Dance^*, Three Windows, Peaceable Kingdom^*, Footnote to Howl, Dancing Barefoot^*, Because the Night^*, People Have the Power^* (encore): Wing^*+

Note: Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, ^*Tony Shanahan and ⁺J D Daugherty.

10 September 2009, Florence, Italy
Wing, Grateful, Because the Night, My Blakean Year

Note: Patti Smith spent the morning busking outside various landmarks in Florence.

10 September 2009, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
My Blakean Year

Note: Presentation of a street performer’s permit to Patti Smith by the Mayor of Florence

10 September 2009, Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
"I Was In Florence"
Frederick, Redondo Beach, Free Money, Birdland, Ghost Dance, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Footnote to Howl, Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have the Power (spoken), People Have the Power, Because the Night, Gloria, (encore): Wing, My Generation^*, Rock n Roll Nigger^*
Soundcheck: We Three, My Generation^*, So You Want to Be (A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star) (aborted), So You Want to Be (A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star) (aborted), Break It Up, Improvisation, Frederick (aborted), Frederick (aborted), Frederick

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band. Special guest ^*Niccolò Zamboni.

11 September 2009, Festival di Mezza Estate, Arena Giardino, Cremona, Italy
Frederick, Kimberly, Birdland, Break it Up, Free Money, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Dancing Barefoot, Peaceable Kingdom/People Have the Power (spoken), People Have the Power, Because the Night, Gloria, (encore): Wing, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

16 September 2009, Our Lady of Pompeii RC Church, New York, NY, USA
Wing

Note: Memorial service for Jim Carroll. Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye.

14 October 2009, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, People Have the Power(spoken), Because the Night (acapella)

Note: Private viewing of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell.

17 October 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
"Patti Smith and Friends - A Salute to Robert Frank"
I Keep Trying to Figure Out What It Means to be American, The Events of 1955-1956, Trampin’, I Hear America Singing (Walt Whitman), A Blessing (James Wright), Combe, Beneath the Southern Cross, Here Is New York (E B White), The Western Lands (William Burroughs), Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Bob Nolan), Mag (Carl Sandberg), Wayward Wind (Gogi Grant), American Tune (Paul Simon), The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus), Ghost Dance, People Have the Power, (encore): Footnote to Howl, Bye Bye Love (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant)

Note: Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Lenny Kaye and Michael Campbell

29 October 2009, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, USA
"The Pratt Institute presents Legends 2009"
People Have the Power, Because the Night

Note: Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye. Incomplete Setlist.

30 October 2009, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
"Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts"
Because the Night, Because the Night

Note: Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen with U2

16 November 2009, Proshansky Auditorium, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
"Extraordinary Lives: Bill Kelly in Conversation with Patti Smith"
Grateful, People Have the Power (spoken), My Blakean Year

19 November 2009, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, USA
"Blake in Poetry and Song: An Evening with Patti Smith"
Introduction to Songs of Innocence(William Blake), To Autumn (William Blake), Preface to Milton (William Blake), Y, Wild Leaves, Burning Roses, The Lamb, Peaceable Kingdom, The Tyger, Waiting Underground, Holy Thursday, London (William Blake), Mannahatta(Walt Whitman), The Chimney Sweeper, Contemplation, Paths That Cross, Cradle Song, My Blakean Year, (encore): Wing^*, People Have the Power^*

Patti Smith, Jesse Smith and ^*Lenny Kaye

3 December 2009, Robert Miller Studio, Wynwood, Miami, FL, USA
"Art Basel Miami Beach 2009"
My Blakean Year, Dog Dream, Babelogue, Reading from Just Kids, Because the Night (acapella)

Note: Incomplete setlist.

29 December 2009, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
(opening set): Reading from Just Kids, Beneath the Southern Cross, (main set): Ask the Angels, Privilege (Set Me Free), Mother Rose, Within You Without You, Boy Cried Wolf, Reading from Just Kids, Still Life (Jim Carroll), Birdland, Frederick, Billie Jean (Michael Jackson), Paths That Cross, Ravens, Powderfinger (Neil Young), Reading from Just Kids, Because the Night, (encore): Baby It’s Cold Outside (Frank Loesser), Pissing in a River, Love Train (The O’Jays), (second encore): Happy Birthday

30 December 2009, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
Land/Gloria, Ask the Angels, Privilege (Set Me Free), Within You Without You, Reading from Just Kids, Mother Rose, Reading from Just Kids, Still Life, People Who Died (Jim Carroll), Happy Birthday, Beneath the Southern Cross, Boy Cried Wolf, Reading from Just Kids, Paths That Cross, Happy Birthday, Frederick, Billie Jean, Pissing in a River, Powderfinger^*, Reading from Just Kids, Because the Night, (encore): Love Train, Not Fade Away

Note: ^* Special guest James Mastro*

31 December 2009, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
Ask the Angels, Privilege (Set Me Free), Redondo Beach, Birdland, Mother Rose, Within You Without You, Reading from Just Kids, Still Life, People Who Died, Beneath the Southern Cross, Frederick, Dancing Barefoot, Bye Bye Love, Auld Lang Syne, Ghost Dance, Blue Moon (Rodgers and Hart), Love Train, Because the Night, Rock n Roll Nigger