Federico Garcia Lorca

Patti Smith helped celebrate Federico Garcia Lorca's birthday at Bowery Ballroom (pics, videos, setlist)

Patti Smith contributed to the ongoing Federico Garcia Lorca Birthday Celebration with her show at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday (6/5). The show opened the show with a Federico Garcia Lorca poetry reading, and then Patti and her band kicked into a set which included a number of classic Patti Smith tunes — “Ask the Angles, Redondo Beach,” “Pissing in a River” — and a bunch of covers too, like “Summertime Blues…

Patti Smith playing Federico Garcia Lorca tribute at Bowery Ballroom & other dates, played Stubb's in Austin (pics, dates)

Patti Smith will play Bowery Ballroom on June 5. Tickets to the Bowery show go on sale Friday (5/17). The show is part of the celebration of the Federico Garcia Lorca Birthday Celebration which has been going on since early April and continues through July with events thoughout the city:Lorca in New York: A Celebration is the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca…