Dear Barefoot Dancers,
Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye did a free Winter Solstice show at my place of work, MoMA, and it was something akin to a religious experience. She sang the last song that John Lennon wrote, for Yoko, and electrified us with her boundless optimism. ("2017 has been a year of great, unexpected strife...but it's also another year of being alive, and being a alive is the greatest thing we have, it's the greatest gift.")
She read poems she wrote for Robert Mappethorpe and Sam Shepard and sang a gorgeous rendition of "O Holy Night." Michael Stipe was there and joined her on stage (which I missed because I had a meeting to run to) but I videotaped most of it, four videos below, enjoy this lovely performance. (You'll need to turn on the sound in the lower right-hand corner of each video.)
Love,
Glenn Belverio
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