Tour Program: BOB DYLAN~1st CONCERT/CARNEGIE HALL 1961~INSANELY RARE ORIG CONCERT PROGRAM+COA * (LITERALLY!) THE BOB DYLAN HOLY GRAIL *

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· BOB DYLAN - THE CONCERT PROGRAM FOR HIS FIRST NEW YORK CONCERT APPEARANCE: NOVEMBER 4, 1961 AT CARNEGIE CHAPTER HALL (AN AUXILIARY PERFORMANCE HALL ADJACENT TO THE MAIN CARNEGIE HALL AUDITORIUM)

· INSANELY RARE TRUE, ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESS RUN OF PROBABLY LESS THAN 200 PRINTED COPIES (THE CARNEGIE CHAPTER HALL COULD ONLY HOLD 200 VISITORS AT A TIME) ; ASSUMING THAT THE PROMOTER OF THE CONCERT (IZZY YOUNG OF THE FOLKLORE CENTER) HAD ORDERED 200 COPIES, THIS MEANS THAT NO LESS THREE QUARTERS WENT UNUSED AND WERE PROBABLY DISCARDED, SINCE ONLY 53 VISITORS SHOWED UP AT BOB DYLAN'S FIRST NYC CONCERT (IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IZZY YOUNG RETAINED SOME OF THE UNUSED PROGRAMS FOR POSTERITY, BUT IN ANY EVENT, NOT MORE THAN 100 COPIES WERE EVER HANDED OUT OR IN CIRCULATION) HOW MANY OF THESE 100 OR SO HAVE SURVIVED 60 YEARS INTACT IS ANYONE'S GUESS; WE ESTIMATE THAT LESS THAN 10 STILL EXIST TODAY, AND THIS IS ON A VERY LIBERAL SIDE OF THE GUESS.

· THE CONCERT PROGRAM COMES WITH THE SIGNED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, ISSUED BY PHILOMENE GRANDIN, IZZY YOUNG'S DAUGHTER, WHICH WILL BE INCLUDED WITH THE CONCERT PROGRAM

· THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST AMERICAN PRINT (OF ONLY ONE PRINT RUN KNOWN); THIS IS NOT A REPRINT, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRINT

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Well folks, here it is. One of the singularly important Rock items we have ever held in our hands. We would be entirely disingenuous if we told you that our hands were not trembling and shaking like a willow in the violent storm while we were holding this precious object, a veritable sacred relic or an object of veneration. This was like touching Elvis Presley's first guitar, or finding the first draft of "The Catcher in the Rye", or stumbling on the original unedited Russian manuscript of Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. Or finding William Faulkner's unpublished first novel at a flea market. Or spotting the collected works of Andy Warhol discarded in a dumpster. You get the idea, don't you?

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Bob Dylan's first concert in New York was held November 4, 1961, just 11 months after Dylan first arrived in New York.

According to Clinton Heylin in his book: Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments, 53 tickets were sold, while the hall could have held 200. Whether that was average for that theater is unknown. According to Heylin, in the first half of the show Dylan played:

"Pretty Peggy-O"

"Black Girl (in the Pines)"

"Gospel Plow"

"1913 Massacre"

"Blackwater Blues"

"Young but Daily Growin'"

"FIxin' to Die"

"This Land is Your Land"

Since Dylan's time, the Carnegie Chapter Hall space has been completely renovated and used for various purposes. After a major renovation in 1985, it was reborn for many years as the Kaplan Space and was used for rehearsals and recording.

The space changed again when the entire east side of Carnegie Hall was renovated (finishing in September 2014) as the Resnick Educational Center with 24 new spaces dedicated to music education. Today much of the space on the floor where the Chapter Hall was is a break room for the staff of Carnegie Hall. In addition, when the Education Wing opening in 2014, the floors were renumbered so the Carnegie Chapter Hall, later, the Kaplan Room, now the breakroom, is now the 6th floor.

About Izzy Young, the promoter of Bob Dylan's first New York Concert:

Israel Goodman Young (March 26, 1928 – February 4, 2019), known as Izzy Young, was a noted figure in the world of folk music, both in America and Sweden. He was once the owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, and from 1973 until his death, owned and operated the Folklore Centrum store in Stockholm.

Israel Goodman Young was born on March 26, 1928 at the Lower East Side of Manhattan, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Philip and Pola Young. His father was a baker. Izzy Young grew up in the Bronx where he finished high school. He attended Brooklyn College. From 1948 to 1952 he worked in his father's bakery in Brooklyn. He later went into the book business.

In 1957, at 110 MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, he opened the Folklore Center, a store for books and records and everything related to folk music. It became a focal point for the American folk music scene of the time, a place where one could find such limited circulation publications as Caravan and Gardyloo, both edited and published by Lee Hoffman. From 1959 to 1969, Young wrote a column entitled "Fret and Frails" for the folk music journal Sing Out. He served on the "editorial advisory board" for the magazine until his departure for Sweden a few years later.

Young arranged concerts with folk musicians and songwriters, who often made contacts with other musicians at the Folklore Center. Bob Dylan relates in his memoirs, Chronicles, how he spent time at the Center, where Young allowed him to sit in the backroom of the store, listening to folk music records and reading books. Dylan met Dave Van Ronk in the store, and Young produced Dylan's first concert at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City on Saturday, November 4, 1961. Bob Dylan wrote a song about the store and Young entitled "Talking Folklore Center".

Other notable figures that played concerts early in their career at the Folklore Center include Peter Paul and Mary, John Sebastian from the Lovin’ Spoonful (Young managed one of Sebastian’s early bands), Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris and Tim Buckley. A live album by Buckley recorded at the Folklore Center in 1967 was released a few years ago. Patti Smith used to read poetry there and also became friends with Young.

Young was also a keen political activist. He famously led a march in 1961, which became known as “the beatnik riot” in protest at a ban on the public performance of music in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park. Young pursued the case through the courts, eventually winning the removal of the ban. He would later champion the plight of Cambodians affected by the US war in Vietnam as well as Palestinians.

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· CONDITION:

The program is a full sheet of paper, printed on both sides and folded in half into a program. It has been lovingly book-bound (in a high-grade grey linen-lined, sturdy, book-like, pocket-sized folder with gold leaf lettering which opens like a candy box; please note that the program itself is NOT attached to the folder and can easily be removed for inspection. The entire package is in a truly beautiful and graded Very Fine+ (near flawless) condition; the only minor flaw on the program is the trace signs of yellowing due to aging; no other visible flaws whatsoever.

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