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Patti Smith to Celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday at Outdoor Spring Festival
Upstate New York’s Kaatsbaan Cultural Park will host outdoor performances and panels in May
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Jim Rassol/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP; Isabel Infantes/PA Wire/AP
Patti Smith will celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday in May at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s outdoor Spring Festival.
Held at a 153-acre campus in Tivoli, New York, the festival will take place during the last two weekends in May (20th-23rd and 27th-30th). Smith will perform on the 22nd, two days before Dylan turns 80. She and her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan will perform Dylan songs and recite poetry. The festival will also feature sculpture, culinary arts, and dance — including two premieres from American Ballet Theater and performances by Martha Graham Dance Company.