Legendary American singer-songwriter, poet, and memoirist Patti Smith is billed to play two Vicar Street dates on the 27th and 28th of June 2024.

Presented by Foggy Notions, the Patti Smith Quartet has today been announced to play Vicar Street in the summer of 2024. Chicago born and South Jersey raised, Smith moved to New York City in 1967.

Her extensive achievements as a performer, author, recording and visual artist is acknowledged worldwide, notably, Smith's first recording, Horses, was inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in 2010 by the National Recording Preservation Board.

Her subsequent albums include Radio Ethiopia, Easter, which includes the single 'Because the Night' (cowritten with Bruce Springsteen), Wave, and Dream of Life, which included People Have the Power cowritten with her late husband Fred Sonic Smith.

Smith is a four-time Grammy nominee and a Golden Globe nominee for the song 'Mercy Is' cowritten with Lenny Kay for the film Noah.

Steven Sebring's 2008 documentary, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, received an Emmy nomination. Patti Smith is also a recipient of the "Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres" from the French Ministry of Culture.

In 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her best selling memoir Just Kids.

At present Smith writes, performs, lending support for human-rights issues and environmental groups, primarily 'Pathway to Paris', a nonprofit organisation co-founded by her daughter, Jesse Paris Smith. She resides in New York City and is a featured writer on Substack, where her twice weekly writings and readings can be subscribed to on line

Tickets for The Patti Smith Quartet Gig are set to go on general sale Friday the 15th of December and are available here.