Patti Smith is set to celebrate Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday with a special outdoor performance this spring.According to Rolling Stone, Smith will take to the stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s outdoor Spring Festival which will be held at a 153-acre campus in Tivoli, New York across the last two weekends in May (20-23 and 27-30).The singer-songwriter will perform alongside her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan on May 22 – two days before Dylan turns 80 (on May 24).
The pair are due to perform “original songs and poetry as well as works by Dylan” to a limited, socially distanced audience.It’s said that the event will adhere to state coronavirus guidelines, admitting less than three per cent of the venue’s usual capacity.
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