Our pal SGordo pointed us in the direction of an event listing that left our jaw on the floor. NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge will host a concert called What Kind of Love Is This: The Music of Bob Dylan and The Band featuring an impressive all-star lineup on Sunday, December 5th.
Check out the house band for this tribute to a wonderful period in Zimmy’s career: Larry Campbell on guitar, Steven Bernstein on trumpet, John Medeski on keys/organ, Kenny Wolleson on percussion, Rob Burger on keys/accordion and Tony Scherr on bass. Special guests joining the house band will be Nicole Atkins, Jolie Holland, Laura Cantrell, John Wesley Harding and The Fiery Furnances. As if that’s not enough, a note on the show’s event page promises that additional special guests will be announced shortly.
Earlier that day, the 14th Street Y will hold a unique symposium on the works of Dylan and The Band including presentations and conversations with cultural critic and Dylan historian Greil Marcus (Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes), filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back), musicians Matt Friedberger (co-founder of The Fiery Furnaces) and Wesley Stace (AKA John Wesley Harding), scholar Christopher Ricks (Dylan’s Vision of Sin), novelists Dana Spiotta (Eat the Document) and John Niven (Music from Big Pink), curator/photographer William Scheele and the Executive Director of the 14th Street Y and writer, Stephen Hazan Arnoff. The symposium begins at noon and runs through 6:30PM. Tickets to the Symposium are $45 and are available directly from the 14th Street Y by calling 212-780-0800 or online at www.14StreetY.org/Dylan.
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Million Dollar Bash indeed. Someone please record…