Patti Smith: new Italian tour with a tribute to St. Francis

Patti Smith returns to Italy with "Words and Music – Where Francis Walked", a new acoustic show dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi on the eight-hundredth anniversary of the saint's death, which occurred in October 1226. Among the four scheduled dates will be one on December 6th at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone in Rome.
More than a traditional concert, "Words and Music – Where Francis Walked" is conceived as a narrative woven from music, poetry and memory. Patti Smith will alternate some of her most celebrated songs with readings, poetic texts and personal recollections, retracing her own artistic and spiritual journey.

The American singer-songwriter's bond with St. Francis runs deep. In 2012 Smith made a pilgrimage to Assisi, visiting the Basilica and pausing in prayer before the tomb of Italy's patron saint. Since then, the figure of the saint has remained one of her key spiritual touchstones.
The show's title is drawn from "Where Francis Walked", a poem Patti Smith wrote this year at the request of the Franciscan community. The text evokes a journey that is at once real and transcendent, marked by both disorientation and the possibility of rebirth. It's a theme also reflected in the structure of the show, where songs and words become tools for questioning the sacred and a spirituality that doesn't necessarily coincide with institutional religion.

The Italian tour will kick off on November 29 in Bolzano and wrap up on December 6 in Rome.

The dates:

November 29 – Bolzano, Transart Festival
December 1 – Salerno, Teatro Verdi
December 5 – San Severino Marche, Teatro Feronia
December 6 – Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone

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