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Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
March 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST
EARL MINNIS PRESENTS and Lobero LIVE present
Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 7:30 PM
EARL MINNIS PRESENTS and Lobero LIVE present Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 7:30 PM. Last November in London, Cat Power took the stage at Royal Albert Hall and delivered a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time. Held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966 – but long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg – the original performance saw Bob Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing ire from an audience of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock-and-roll.
“Cat Power makes Dylan’s legendary Albert Hall gig her own… A successful, rather
touching interpretation of one of the most famous concerts in rock history.”
– The Times (London) (4 stars)
In her own rendition of that historic night, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall, inhabited each song with equal parts conviction and grace, and a palpable sense of protectiveness – ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy. Now captured on the live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall’s spellbinding performance both lovingly honors her hero’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs.
A singularly gifted song interpreter whose catalog includes three acclaimed cover albums (2000’s The Covers Record, 2008’s Jukebox, 2022’s Covers), Marshall holds an especially strong affinity for the songwriter-poet. Like the original concert (and all of Dylan’s 1966 world tour), Marshall kept the first half of her set entirely acoustic, then went electric for the second half with the help of a full band: guitarist Arsun Sorrenti, bassist Erik Paparozzi, multi-instrumentalists Aaron Embry (harmonica, piano) and Jordan Summers (organ, Wurlitzer), and drummer Josh Adams.
Tickets for Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert are on sale now at Lobero.org and at the Lobero Box Office 805.963.0761. VIP tickets are $131 (includes premier seating and a pre-show reception with drinks and hors d’oeuvres), Section A tickets are $85. Reserved seating. Ticket prices include a per ticket Lobero Facility Fee; other fees may also apply.
