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East Coast Shape Shifter Tour 2012, Co-Headliners Santana and The Allman Brothers Band

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Santana and The Allman Brothers Band will be co-headlining a six date East Coast tour this summer. They have a tour stop in Connecticut at the Comcast Theatre, Hartford, Ct. on Saturday July 28, 2012. Imagine the guitar wizardry of Carlos Santana, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks all on the same stage on one night. We’ll all be shape shifting for sure.

Speaking of Shape Shifter, the date draws closer for the May 15 release of Shape Shifter the recording. Here is the video, inside the making of Shape Shifter.

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Patti Smith’s Exhibtion, Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum

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Rosemary and I spent a delightful afternoon in Hartford, CT at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Our mission was to spend quality time with Patti Smith‘s photography exhibition entitled Camera Solo.

It was our second visit to the Wadsworth Atheneum in three days. We were first there on Friday October 21, 2011 for the opening of the exhibition. We attended a signing by Patti Smith in the Avery Court at 11:00 a.m.

We brought a copy of the exhibition catalog and Patti Smith’s latest CD, Outside Society for Patti to sign. It’s always a friendly interchange with Patti Smith. She signed both the cover and the liner notes for Outside Society as well as the inner pages of the catalog.

Patti Smith was gracious to allow me a photograph of her after she signed.

We couldn’t stay to pursue the exhibition on Friday as we wanted to get to Mohegan Sun to get online to see Stephen Stills at the Wolf Den. (see yesterday’s blog post for that event). We made a pact that we would return to the Wadsworth Atheneum on Sunday.

We love what we learn each time we have a touch point with Patti Smith. Our art tastes have been extended to a whole new plane of thought. Patti Smith is a prism into many forms of art, visual, audio, literature, poetry and now photographic experiences.

The Patti Smith: Camera Solo exhibition was exquisitely curated. There were more than 70 photographs by Patti Smith, displayed along the walls.

There was also interesting physical mementos such as Robert Mapplethorpe‘s slippers and Patti Smith’s father’s Charles Dickens cup she had gotten him in London. You could just see her father savoring his coffee in it :)

We especially liked the 7+ minute 16 mm black and white film about Rene Daumal that Patti Smith directed and narrated with her articulate voice adding poetic emotion. This was the first time we had seen the film. It was a visual excursion in Paris that taught us more about the life of  a great poet. Jem Cohen did the camera work which was a visual  surreal immersion.

My favorite Patti Smith Polaroid photograph was the bed of Virginia Wolf where the sheet forms a raised cross.  I found this photograph the most peaceful as it represents the rising of one’s spirit. It fortified today’s homily at mass about how we move to the afterlife at the moment of death.

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Patti Smith billboard and catalogue

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I was stoked to see this billboard while driving to work last week on Interstate 95 in West Haven, Ct. It awakened me from the dull stupor of my morning commute. I had no clue that Patti Smith and Wadsworth Atheneum had collaborated to present the first exhibition of her photography  in the United States right here in Hartford.

Now in addition to plans to attend the exhibit opening and book signing I have procured a copy of  the Patti Smith, Camera Solo catalogue. This title was published in conjunction with the exhibition. I ordered it from the Wadsworth Atheneum  Shop online. They ship quickly. ;)

The catalogue has a Director’s Foreword from Susan Lubowsky Talbott. There is also an intimate ten page interview with Patti Smith that Susan conducted on July 12, 2011. The interview illuminates Patti Smith’s role as a photographer. We gain valuable insight into the artistic discipline that complements Patti Smith’s prolific abilities as singer, songwriter, musician, and author.

I like the muse Patti Smith defines with her Polaroid Land 250 camera. We can’t wait to see the photographs as well as Patti in person very soon now.

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