This Was Patti Smith's First Concert: Full in Gijón to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of His First Recital in Spain
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A thousand voices tuck the artist in at the Jovellanos Theatre in Gijón.
The American singer and writer collects on Friday the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts 2026. She performed a repertoire of eleven songs before a dedicated audience at the Teatro Jovellanos. More information: Patti Smith, in Oviedo: "When I first saw a work by Picasso, I knew I wanted to be an artist"
The audience danced and sang in a spontaneous chorus totally dedicated to the artist who will pick up next Friday the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts, in OviedoPatti Smith, an ode to the culture of Spain and to citizen action: “At this moment the most important thing is the vote” American singer and writer Patti Smith has made sing, dance and beat palms to the thousand people that this Tuesday have filled the Jovellanos Theatre of Gijón,…
The living and the dead. At almost eighty years old, when Patti Smith gets on stage, he is accompanied by an eternity: his musicians, the girl who pees on the river and spits on the floor, the girl who waits for the nocturnal call of her lover, the exterminated Indian nation, Arthur Rimbaud become the captain of a boat that sails drunk through the sky, Jim Morrison, his late partner Fred “Sonic” Smith, Federico García Lorca and the mother of Jes…
Patti Smith, 50 Years After His Debut in Spain: Mysticism, Commitment, Poetry and Pure Rock and Roll
The American Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts, gave the first of her two concerts in Gijón in which she showed herself in full form, was re-created in Rimbaud, mentioned the massacre in Gaza and kept the public in a state of liturgy
Patti Smith arrived in Asturias with a string of celebrations: her Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts and the fiftieth anniversary of her concert in Spain. The American singer blew out the candles (not quite) at the Jovellanos Theater in Gijón with a show that straddled the line between nostalgia and hope. Let's hear her recount it: "Gay Mercader brought me here. Gay and I were very young, around thirty, and we both wanted to do new things.…
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