By Abdiel Vallejo-Lopez for Paste Magazine
Legendary singer-songwriter and activist Patti Smith premiered her concert film Horses: Patti Smith And Her Band on Monday night at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film captures Smith performing her breakthrough album, Horses, in its entirety live in Los Angeles. The movie premiered at New York’s Beacon Theatre, where Smith and her band played a short set to accompany the screening.
The musician and her band performed a handful of songs from her extensive catalog, including “Land / Gloria” from Horses and “Pissing In A River” from Radio Ethiopia, as well as a cover of “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield, per Rolling Stone. To close the set, Smith enlisted the help of a couple friends to join her onstage.
New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen was the first musician to answer the call. He joined Smith in singing the 1978 hit single “Because The Night,” a song that Smith and Springsteen co-wrote.
Smith then invited out R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and his daughter Jesse Smith to close out the night with a rendition of Smith’s 1988 single “People Have The Power,” which the musician dedicated to the victims of the Parkland shooting.
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