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Copyright: Inez Vinoodh

In her own interpretation of Bob Dylan’s seminal 1966 concert, Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, performs each song with conviction and grace. Lovingly honouring her hero’s influence on music history, she lends many of his most revered songs a surprising new vitality. Doors open at 7 PM.

In her own interpretation of Bob Dylan’s seminal 1966 concert, Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, performs each song with conviction and grace. Lovingly honouring her hero’s influence on music history, she lends many of his most revered songs a surprising new vitality. Doors open at 7 PM.

In November 2023, Cat Power took to the stage of London’s Royal Albert Hall to recreate, song for song, one of the most legendary and transformative live concerts of all time. At this original performance in May 1966, much to the chagrin of folk purists, Bob Dylan switched from acoustic to electric mid-show and changed the course of rock’n’roll forever.

 

A gifted performer whose catalogue includes three acclaimed covers albums (The Covers Record from 2000, Jukebox from 2008 and Covers from 2022), Marshall has a strong affinity with the songwriter-poet she has dubbed “God Dylan”. As with Dylan’s original appearance, Marshall will play the first half of her set completely acoustically, before switching to electric in the second half, backed by a full band consisting of guitarist Arsun Sorrenti, bassist Erik Paparozzi, multi-instrumentalists Aaron Embry (harmonica, piano), Jordan Summers (organ, Wurlitzer) and drummer Josh Adams.

 

From the very first moment, it is evident that Marshall is delighting us with songs that have lived in her heart for decades. Songs irreversibly changed by Marshall’s female perspective, like She Belongs To Me or Just Like a Woman, which she imbues with a raw and endearing tenderness.

“When someone covers a song that you love, they can give you something that you’ll remember forever because they perform it in their own way, with their own voice, with the way they sing or hum a certain line.”

Cat Power