LINCOLN PARK — Punk poet Patti Smith will be ringing in the new year at the Park West.
Tickets went on sale Friday for a 9 p.m. Dec. 31 show at the intimate, longtime Lincoln Park venue, 322 W. Armitage Ave. They're $65 apiece, although fees will be added on.
It will be the day after Smith celebrates her 70th birthday with a show performing her 1975 debut album, "Horses," at the Riviera Theatre, 4746 N. Broadway.
But the Park West show will be closer to her actual birthplace, the former Grant Hospital at Lincoln and Webster avenues.
Smith came to fame in the midst of the punk movement in the '70s and has been a cultural force for decades, as well as being politically active and outspoken. Her book "Just Kids," about her life as a struggling artist living with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City in the early '70s, won a 2010 National Book Award, and she followed that with "M Train" last year.
The Park West is said to seat 700, but it's general admission and the dance floor will be open for a capacity of 1,000. In any case, tickets figure to go fast.
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