Name: Ron Delsener Presents At Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema
Start: 2025-08-20T19:15:00-04:00
Location: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas

Ron Delsener Presents At Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema

Ron Delsener Presents
Part of Onstage, Onscreen
Venue: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
Buy Tickets: https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17454/ron-delsener-presents/
2023 | NR | 1 hr 39 mins
Directed by: Jake Sumner
Starring: Jimmy Buffett, Cher, Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi, Lenny Kaye, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, Gene Simmons, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Stanley, Veronica White, Steve Van Zandt
In a career spanning sixty years, concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener was the name behind virtually every major contemporary music concert in New York City for generations. From promoting the Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, to bringing David Bowie to Carnegie Hall and Patti Smith to the Palladium, to somehow convincing Simon and Garfunkel to bury the hatchet and play the biggest concert of all time in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all.
Through a portrait of a mercurial and relentless showman, Ron Delsener Presents takes us behind-the-curtain through the last half century of the live music business, chronicling the tactics that drove live performance from disorganized, low-fi nightclubs to international tours, arenas, stadiums, and, eventually, into a global empire. A transformation that Delsener is in many ways responsible for. Working in a business he helped to create Ron Delsener now in the later stages of his life, still has his hand in the game. Sure, he could stop - he maybe even should but Ron doesn’t know how.
*Ages 25 and under & senior discounts apply at the box office only.