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50 years after the appearance of Horses, Patti Smith will come to Germany with her current band, the quartet in the summer of 2025, for a large open-air or tent festival tour to Germany: The Patti Smith quartet in this country will give nine concerts in July 2025. On Friday, July 11th, Smith will play as part of the 20th anniversary of the Citadel Music Festival in the Spandau Citadel-one of the most atmospheric open-air venues in the capital.
All information about your appearance on Friday in Berlin can be found here:
Tickets
Tickets for Patti Smith at the Citadel Music Festival are at all known ticket agencies on which official website of the festivalas well as to buy on Eventim. Standing rooms with free choice of seats begin here at a price of 73 euros.
Times and support
Admission is from 5:30 p.m., concert starts at 7.30 p.m.
Approach
Arrival by car or motorcycle
Address: Zitadelle Spandau, Am Juliusturm, 13599 Berlin
Park
There are only limited parking facilities near the citadel. It is therefore recommended to start the journey by public transport – if the car can be dispensed with. Preferably you should drive with the U7 to the Zitadelle stop.
Arrival by public transport
U7 subway: drive the U7 line to the “Citadel” station. S-Bahn: Drive with the lines S75+9 to the “Spandau” station. Bus: Line X33 as well as long-distance and regional railway to the station BHf. Berlin-Spandau. The journey time is about 30 minutes from Berlin-Mitte.
Weather
The weather for July 11th has not yet been predictable.
Setlist
Patti Smith’s setlist can vary depending on the tour stop. Finally, however, she performed her songs in the following order:
- Redondo Beach
- Ghost dance
- My Blakean Year
- 1959
- Boy Cried Wolf
- Nine
- Dancing Barefoot
- One Too many Morning
- Beneath the Southern Cross
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Transcendental Blues
- Because the night
- People have the power
More about the Citadel Music Festival
You can get to the information about which other artists play at the Citadel Music Festival On the website of the festival.

