Patti Smith will be telling stories from her new memoir Bread of Angels and performing with her son Jackson Smith on Friday January 9th 2026 at the Gallery Ideation Orange, 420 W. 9 Mile Rd., Hazel Park. This event is a rare intimate gathering with 120 tickets available that will come with a signed book. After expenses, a donation will be made for TUNES Music Makers on Beaver Island. Ticket sales are available online at Gallery Ideation Orange. Additional Patti Smith books will be available at the gallery through Book Beat.
“Some of Patti Smith’s core ideas about music as a sacred mystery lace through many of her books. Still, one of the marvels of “Bread of Angels” is that, for a work by a memoirist of uncommon prolificacy, it is remarkably fresh, with long sections on subjects about which Smith has rarely written or even said much publicly…. the big reveal in “Bread of Angels” is the slow, warm, unpretentious section about the life Smith lived with her husband and kids in Michigan.”
–David Hadju, The New York Times
Patti Smith is also the author of A Book of Days, Woolgathering, M Train, Year of the Monkey, and Collected Lyrics. Her seminal album Horses, which was released fifty years ago, has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. Her global exhibitions include Strange Messenger, Land 250, Camera Solo, and Evidence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commander des Arts et des Lettres. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, Smith is also the recipient of the ASCAP Founders Award, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, and the Legion d’honneur.