Today, 26th July 2018 on the second day of the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri, will take place as Special event Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2018′ (from 19:00 – 20:00) featuring great poetic and New-Topical-Songs by Michel Montecrossa and Bob Dylan.
Festival Address & Contact:
Omnidiet Resort and Business Hotel
Via Monte Falò 8, 28011 Mirapuri-Coiromonte, Provincia di Novara, Italy
Phone: ++39-0322-999009, eMail: info@spiritofwoodstockfest.com
Image above: Michel Montecrossa & Mirakali live on stage at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri (Italy), this year the Festival will take place from 25th – 29th July 2018 (www.SpiritOfWoodstockFest.com)
Image above: Michel Montecrossa live on stage at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri (Italy), this year the Festival will take place from 25th – 29th July 2018 (www.SpiritOfWoodstockFest.com)
Image above: Michel Montecrossa & Mirakali in between at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri (Italy), this year the Festival will take place from 25th – 29th July 2018 (www.SpiritOfWoodstockFest.com)
Listen & watch: ‘TRANSFORMATION LIFE’ Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2016 (Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan www.Michel-BobDylan.com) – this year Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest’ at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival will take place on 26th July 2018, read about it here.
TRANSFORMATION LIFE Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2016 is released by Mira Sound Germany on Audio-CD, DVD and as Download.
TRANSFORMATION LIFE Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2016 which was recorded live on Tuesday 26th July 2016 during the legendary Spirit of Woodstock Festival 2016 in Mirapuri is presenting the outstandingly revealing performances of 6 Michel Montecrossa songs and 6 Bob Dylan songs performed by Michel Montecrossa and his band The Chosen Few. TRANSFORMATION LIFE Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2016 begins with Michel Montecrossa’s brand-new after-Brexit Topical Song ‘What The European Union Must Do Now – Was Die Europäische Union Jetzt Machen Muss’, followed by the timeless Bob Dylan folk Protest Song ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’. The Michel Montecrossa Transformation-Reality-Song ‘No Sugar’ leads to Bob Dylan’s bitter-sweet look-life-into-the face Love Song ‘To Ramona’. Michel Montecrossa then goes on with his soulful ‘Woman & Man, Man & Woman’. The tender Bob Dylan song ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’ connects to Michel Montecrossa’s Mirapuri Song ‘The Place Of The Free’. In the thoughtful ‘Yes Or No Blues’ Michel Montecrossa asks his girl “Tell me girl: Are you ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, or have you found the middle? Tell me girl: Are you unbound or do you move in circles? It’s your mind. It’s your heart. It’s the whisper. It’s the star.” Then he extends the seeking and finding emotion into the performance of the Bob Dylan song ‘Where Teardrops Fall’. The finale are the autobiographical ‘Cyberrocker Ballad’ by Michel Montecrossa, the self reflecting Bob Dylan song ‘Most Of The Time’ and ‘Melancholy Mood’, one of the Frank Sinatra songs which Bob Dylan also performed.
‘What The European Union Must Do Now – Was Die Europäische Union Jetzt Machen Muss’
‘Blowin’ In The Wind’
‘Cyberrocker Ballad’
‘Most Of The Time’
‘Melancholy Mood’
Michel Montecrossa says about his Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2016:
“There is ordinary life and there is TRANSFORMATION LIFE. I live the TRANSFORMATION LIFE.”
Michel Montecrossa says about his Michel & Bob Dylan Fest series:
“The origin of the ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest Series’ was a man asking me if I could sing a Bob Dylan song in my next concert. I fulfilled his wish. After that I was asked ever more to include Bob Dylan songs in my concerts, as people said they like my way of singing Bob Dylan songs and they like to hear them together with my own songs as a positive and stimulating experience. Out of that the ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest Series’ evolved, beginning in 2001 and the ‘The Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2016‘ is the 16th time that it happened. It includes my own new songs as well as Bob Dylan songs from 1961 till 2016.”
Today’s CyberRock Tuesday presents the first song selection from ‘LONG AND WASTED YEARS Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2017’ – read here about the album (Audio-CD & DVD) and download it here from the Mirapuri-Shop.
LONG AND WASTED YEARS Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2017 is released by Mira Sound Germany on Audio-CD, DVD and as Download.
LONG AND WASTED YEARS Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2017 which was recorded live on Thursday 20th July 2017 during the legendary Spirit of Woodstock Festival 2017 in Mirapuri is presenting the great singing of 9 Bob Dylan songs performed by Michel Montecrossa and his band The Chosen Few and 7 Michel Montecrossa songs. LONG AND WASTED YEARS Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2017 begins with the Bob Dylan song ‘Long And Wasted Years’ followed by Michel Montecrossa’s Cyberschlager ‘Ich Bin Der Typ – I’m The One’ and Bob Dylan’s song ‘Champaign, Illinois’. Michel Montecrossa’s timeless Hit ‘Auf Der Autobahn Des Lebens – On The Highway Of Life’ leads to Bob Dylan’s song ‘I Don’t Want To Do It’. Michel Montecrossa then goes on with his ‘From Honeymoon I Started Into The Open Years’. The Bob Dylan song ‘If Not For You’ connects to Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Mondkuss Lust – Moonkiss Passion’. The journey goes on with the Bob Dylan song ‘New Morning’, Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Sinnlich Mit Dir – Sensual With You’ and many more. The finale is ‘I Could Have Told You’, one of the Frank Sinatra songs which Bob Dylan also performed.
Michel Montecrossa says about his Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2017:
“Songs from the highway of Life.”
Save the date: Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2018’ at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri (Italy) is set to take place on Thursday 26th July 2018 (www.SpiritOfWoodstockFest.com)
Today’s CyberRock Tuesday presents songs from ‘Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Special – Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan and Himself’ – read here about the album (Audio-CD & DVD) and download it here from iTunes.
‘Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Special – Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan and Himself’ is released by Mira Sound Germany on Audio-CD, DVD and as Download celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” 10th December 2016 (followed by Bob Dylan’s acceptation of the Nobel Prize for Literature in April 2017) in Stockholm, Sweden. The ‘Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Special – Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan and Himself’ presents the outstandingly revealing performances of 8 Bob Dylan songs, 1 Robbie Robertson song and 3 Michel Montecrossa songs all played by Michel Montecrossa and his band The Chosen Few including Bob Dylan’s legendary songs ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’, ‘Chimes Of Freedom’ and ‘I’ll Keep It With Mine’ as well as Robbie Robertson’s ‘Golden Feather’ and Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Another Morn’.
Robbie Robertson for many years played guitar for Bob Dylan and was an important co-creator of the typical band sound that accompanied Bob Dylan’s song music on its way to international fame. The song ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ which is the opening song of the ‘Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Special – Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan and Himself’ was also performed as the opening of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. On that occasion it was sung by Patti Smith. Michel Montecrossa’s orchestral interpretation of ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ is based on Bob Dylan’s own orchestral version of the song which he staged during the ‘Great Music Experience Festival’ 1994 in Japan.
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan)
Chimes Of Freedom (Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan)
I’ll Keep It With Mine (Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan)
Golden Feather (Michel Montecrossa sings Robbie Robertson)
Another Morn (by Michel Montecrossa)
Movie: DVD-Preview of ‘Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Special – Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan and Himself’
Michel Montecrossa says about the ‘Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Special – Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan and Himself’:
“I see the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 to Bob Dylan (followed by Bob Dylan’s acceptation of the Nobel Prize for Literature in April 2017) as an historical cultural event which not only honors the written side of literature but also highlights the dimension of the art of song-poetry fusion which in fact is much older than written literature and in the future is ever more bound to gain a mind-staggering planetary importance for the growth of human intelligence and expansion of consciousness experience.”
Bob Dylan says in his statement for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (read out by the United States Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji):
“Well, I’ve been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now.
I’ve made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it’s my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I’m grateful for that.
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, “Are my songs literature?”
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
My best wishes to you all.”
Save the date: Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2018’ at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri (Italy) is set to take place on Thursday 26th July 2018 (www.SpiritOfWoodstockFest.com)
