Patti Smith - singer, songwriter, poet, author and icon - will be sharing her writing in a new weekly newsletter on Substack. Her newsletter will also eventually feature a subscription tier that will see a new publication called The Melting arrive every Tuesday, which she described as "a journal of my private pandemic," with a first entry written on April 7 of last year. Smith played a brief set with longtime collaborator Tony Shanahan at the Brooklyn Museum as part of New York State's "PopsUp" festival, which is an effort to keep the spotlight on live entertainment as it enters its second year of lockdown. While Smith has been active performing and speaking in recent years, among her most entertaining efforts was a Words And Music retrospective in New York in 2018, which saw her reading selections from her books and performing songs accompanied by Shanahan and her children, Jessie and Jackson. The following year she appeared at a Variety "Storytellers" event, where she spoke at length, a highlight of which was her story about losing her cool in front of Dylan.

Source: The Star April 03, 2021 06:00 UTC